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From: tjt@kobold.UUCP (T.J.Teixeira)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.followup
Subject: Re: Pet Peeve - Posting same article to several newsgroups
Message-ID: <162@kobold.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 19:10:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  7 19:10:32 1983
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I think one source of the same article appearing on multiple newsgroups
as different articles is articles forwarded from the Arpanet mailing
lists, particularly those forwarded to net.micro (INFO-MICRO@MIT-MC)
and net.micro.cpm (INFO-CPM@MIT-MC).  I'm not sure if it is possible to
weed these out since by the time they show up on Usenet, the original
recipient has disappeared.  If the information is still available at
the Arpanet-Usenet gateway, perhaps the forwarders of these messages
could reach some agreement about messages sent to multiple newsgroups.
i.e. choose one forwarder to send the message to both newgroups, and
have the other ignore the message if both mailing lists are included in
the To: list.