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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: brentp@microsoft
Keywords: enough!
Message-ID: <9073@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 11 Oct 88 23:13:07 GMT
References: <16262@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <16268@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <323@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <323@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, pmech@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU wrote:

> I notice a tab in the first entry in brentp@microsoft's files. Could
> this be causing propagation problems?

Yes.  It prevents inews from realizing that it has seen this article
before.

Since people are seeing different numbers of these articles, I assume
there are loops in the feeds generating the multiple copies.  I
thought site A would never send to site B if B was listed anywhere in
the Path: line, but perhaps that is not always the case.  Does nntp
use the Path: line to prevent loops, or does it depend solely on the
history file?
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