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From: jbs@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: The most expensive bug in the history of Usenet?
Message-ID: <1976@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14-May-86 23:41:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 23:41:26 1986
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In article <8605130111.AA01357@lll-tis-b.ARPA> Tim@lll-lcc.UUcp (Tim Kehres) writes:
>>[...]
>>Fortunately, the full 20 Mb won't go everywhere, because spool
>>directories should fill up all over the net first, and the same
>>message-IDs were used, so I hope some of the backbone sites keep
>>news around for a long time (so the old Message-IDs will still
>>be in the history file).
>>[...]
>
>If  the message ID's were left the same, most sites should drop most
>of the articles as "duplicate".  Please let me know if this is not the
>case.

It is certainly not the case.  Many, many duplicate messages made it
here, and beyond.

Jeff Siegal