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From: ted@blia.BLI.COM (Ted Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Digest or Not Digest, that is the question
Message-ID: <2760@blia.BLI.COM>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 11:51:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: blia.2760
Posted: Fri Jun  5 11:51:01 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 07:26:46 EDT
Organization: Britton Lee, Los Gatos, CA
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I for one have not seen a duplicate message since we went back off digest
format. Yet several others complain that they receive 4 or 5 copies of a
message. It sounds to me like there is a specific distribution path or
mechanism that is generating the duplicates. Lets try to narrow this down.

I receive comp.os.vms through USENET news. It looks like anything gatewayed
from BITNET or the Internet come through ucbvax (Berkeley.EDU). As I say,
I haven't seen any duplicates recently. Has any other USENET news reader
gotten the duplicates?

I understand that INFO-VAX Internet mailing-list recipients always get
digests (is this correct?) so I assume that they are not the ones requesting
digest format.

I don't know how other recipients (BITNET, NOTES, what else?) receive this
group. Is some subset of these users the ones receiving the deplicates?

Maybe we can get enough information to figure out what is duplicating the
messages and put an end to the problem.

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Ted Marshall       ...!ucbvax!mtxinu!blia!ted <or> mtxinu!blia!ted@Berkeley.EDU
Britton Lee, Inc., 14600 Winchester Blvd, Los Gatos, Ca 95030     (408)378-7000
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