Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1exp 10/6/83; site ihnp4.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!pcl
From: pcl@ihnp4.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: still more duplicate articles
Message-ID: <453@ihnp4.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Oct-83 03:38:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihnp4.453
Posted: Tue Oct 18 03:38:47 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Oct-83 15:14:44 EDT
References: <3152@umcp-cs.UUCP> <18884@wivax.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
Lines: 23

I can explain a *portion* of the duplicate articles that have hit the
net lately - specifically, those in net.news.group that have the
transition ...!hlexa!ihnp4!... in their path.  (This is not a normal
link for through traffic.)  The situation was that ihnp4 had not been
storing articles in net.news.group due to a missing active file entry. 
(We understood that it was net.news.groups.)  When I discovered & fixed
this, I shipped ihnp4 the existing articles from that newsgroup on
hlexa.  Unfortunately, I forgot that we don't expire 'net.news' on
hlexa, and thus some of the articles were a bit more than two weeks old
(luckily not many, because I had culled out the really old stuff some
weeks before).

I don't think this was a significant number of duplicates, but decided
it might help those trying to track down the *other* duplicates that
seem to have appeared at about the same time, to know that there are at
least *two* sources of old articles involved here.

Sorry for any undue puzzlement this may have caused.

	Paul Lustgarten
	Netnews Administrator for
		AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills NJ  (the 'hl*' sites)
	{hlexa, ihnp4} !pcl