Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!ems!nis!sialis!rjg
From: rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages
Message-ID: <80@sialis.mn.org>
Date: 9 Jan 88 16:56:30 GMT
References: <2349@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin)
Organization: The Board of Irresponsible People
Lines: 18

>It appears site 'hpubvwa' is sending out duplicate messages all over
>the net.  They are stripping domain info from the message-id, so
><nnnn@host.site.edu> becomes <nnnn@host>.  The news system thinks
>these are new messages, so you get to read them again.

It always does seem to happen, doesn't it, that when we get a nice
couple of weeks of slow news traffic over holidays, that a site
somewhere decides (usually by accident, of course :-) that it has to
make up for it by redistributing everything once again...   My poor
disks never get a break... :-)

I know... wrong group!  :-)

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