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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ROGUE FORWARDER
Message-ID: <20142@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 88 03:16:46 GMT
References: <2145@bsu-cs.UUCP> <479@ruby.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <479@ruby.TEK.COM> rjg@ruby.UUCP (Richard J. Greco) writes:
>I think the problem is harder then you think.  On my news feed SOME of
>the posted binaries wind up in comp.sys.ibm.pc and some of them wind
>up in the binaries group.  For instance the recent posting of the ZOO
>archiver, part one was in comp.sys.ibm.pc, the remaining parts were in
>the binaries group.  The same thing happened with nethack and moria
>binaries.
>
>If there was an errent mailer, wouldn't all of a posting wind up in
>the wrong group rather then selected pieces?

You may be misunderstanding the layout of USENET.  From what I
understand, USENET sites (in particular ARPA sites) often receive
their news from multiple sources.  News is checked for duplicates and
any duplicate articles are ignored.  If for some reason articles find
their way between USENET sites at different speeds, it is possible to
get USENET postings (even those in a chain) in different orders from
different sources.  This could cause the observed behavior.

As for whether or not a problem exists, I'd bet on it.  Someone
commented to me that 2 of my "proff" postings ended up in
comp.sys.ibm.pc (where I sent them) and one in comp.binaries.ibm.pc
(which I never touched).  I'm quite sure I posted them consistently.
I've also run across jumbled postings.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu