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From: mp@whuxle.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: article duplications
Message-ID: <465@whuxle.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 08:16:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: whuxle.465
Posted: Sat Jun 23 08:16:58 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jun-84 08:49:49 EDT
References: <481@denelcor.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany
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I think I've found the cause of the duplicate article problem.  It
seems there's at least one site still running an old version of A news
- I heard it's version 1.6.  A news didn't support the Message-ID
field, only the Article-ID field, so the domain is getting stripped off
as it passes through this machine, and the machine after it is regenerating
the Message-ID by adding a .UUCP domain.  I think the A news system
may also truncate site names to 8 characters.

If anyone has tips on making B news work on a PDP11 running PWB1.2, let
me know and I'll forward the fixes on to the site.
	Mark Plotnick