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From: yost@bty.UUCP (Brian Yost)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: who is BTY Inc., and why are they issuing duplicate mod.* articles
Message-ID: <226@bty.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 02:26:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 02:26:54 1985
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Organization: BTY, Inc., Rockaway, NJ
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> A recent rash of duplicate articles has hit mod.sources and mod.std.unix
> (and probably others that I don't read).  They all come from
> BTY Inc., Rockaway, NJ.  Who are they (they're not in the maps) and

I just recently ported the USENET software to my system, an Altos 586
running XENIX.  During the process of debugging the inews program, I
inadvertently dispatched some articles that had gotten stuck in my
uucp directory.  I had intended to post them only locally, and did not
realize my error in time to correct it.

In all, 80 (!) articles got re-posted.  Of course, the Message-ID fields
got changed, killing my hopes that the articles would by rejected by the
history mechanism at receiving sites.

I'm sorry to have caused you any inconvenience.  I assure you that no
more duplicated articles will be posted from this system in the future.
Thanks for your patience and concern in this situation.

Sincerely,

Brian Yost
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