Acca.591
net.news.b
utzoo!decvax!cca!z
Thu Apr 29 09:00:41 1982
Rejection and cancel bugs
For some reason, we have recently been getting a flurry of duplicate
articles from decvax.  The vast majority of these have been successfully
rejected, but a few duplicates (with the same article ID) manage to
sneak by anyway.  The problem doesn't seem to be a race condition, as
the times on the articles are typically ten minutes apart or so.  Has
anyone else seen this, or understand what's happening?

When I then read through the news and hit the duplicate articles, I
typed "c" after the header of the second one to cancel it, without
bothering to read it.  News informed me that it was canceling the
article locally.  However, when I examined the directory for the
newsgroup, I found that the previous article had been canceled instead!
In this case it didn't matter, since the two articles were duplicates of
each other, but this seems to be a bug.