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From: jc@cdx39.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: UNIX clone with SOURCE CODE available now
Message-ID: <644@cdx39.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 15:06:54 EST
Article-I.D.: cdx39.644
Posted: Wed Feb  4 15:06:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 18:28:34 EST
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Organization: Codex Corp, a division of Motorola; Canton, MA, USA
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Summary: Don't be so hard on the poor guy...

> >>If your software worked, you would only have seen the cross-posted
> >>article once.  [...]
> >
> >This is not always true, I'm running under UNIX BSD4.3 and I see
> >multiple postings all the time.
> >
> >Sean Cunningham
> 
> Ah, Sean.  What CAN I say?  Did ye read the original, laddie?
> ``If your software worked...''  And it's a BIG `if', too.  

Well, ours works, but I still see repeated articles.  Why?  Well,
when I investigated, I found that the articles weren't exact repeats.
They typically differed by one (blank) line, and sometimes one of
them has the signature repeated.  They also have different sequence
numbers, which is why my software treats them as different.

There are broken versions of postnews (I'd guess) around that send
out multiple versions of articles.  I've sent messages to this effect
to the usenet admins on some machines, but it takes a lot of time to
verify that I've got another case, and anyhow, I don't read all groups.

Now if someone would tell me why 2.11 readnews still has the bug that
causes it to repeat a subject line over and over and over......

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