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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Flood of duplicate articles
Message-ID: <202@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 23:29:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 17 23:29:07 1983
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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Thus we see dramatically, how the network news can be made almost unusuable
by the recent flood of messages greater than two weeks old.  Is there any
progress being made on this?  That brings up the other problem--USENET
is so decentralized, with no locus of responsibility, that everyone sits
back saying "Is there any progress bring made on this?"

/Steve
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