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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Bad software polluting the net
Message-ID: <2a59b4b6.1de6@apollo.uucp>
Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 13:39:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 25 13:39:14 1985
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It seems there is a notes site out there somewhere that is forging message-IDs
on orphaned responses.  The two articles that I have seen this on recently
were <-24500@cernvax.UUCP> and <-88400@mcvax.UUCP>.  These were duplicates
of legitimate artices <245@cernvax.UUCP> and <88400@mcvax.UUCP>.  They were
generated by out of date notes software.  Current notes systems do not have
the bug that causes duplicates of this type to be generated.

The site generating these duplicates lies somewhere on the path
    voder!nsc!pyramid!decwrl!Glacier!oliveb!hplabs!hao!ICO!cernvax

The only notes sites on that path (according to "Known News Versions in use")
are ICO and hplabs.