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From: news@wa4mei.UUCP (USENET admin)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Question about articles being mailed
Summary: messages being mailed out by news
Message-ID: <1758@wa4mei.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 21:43:24 GMT
References: <203@dvnspc1.UUCP> <1098@ncar.ucar.edu>
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In article <1098@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
.In article <203@dvnspc1.UUCP> tom@dvnspc1.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) writes:
..
..Does anyone know why our news software started mailing articles?
..
..from the news log file:
.....
..   Dec  8 15:10	burdvax	received <18657@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> ng \
..     comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.graphics subj 'GNUplot' from jsin@CS.UCLA.EDU
..   Dec  8 15:10	burdvax	Article mailed to comp-binaries-ibm-pc-d
.
. I know 8000 people will tell you this, but the problem is most likely that
.your "mailpaths" file has either been trashed or removed. Articles posted
.to moderated groups are ALWAYS mailed. The "mailpaths" file, among other
.things, tells the software where to mail to. There is a set of sites (the

I think that I have been having the same problems as Tom is refering
to in which news is mailing incoming news articles back out.  These 
are not articles that have been originated here.  I have seen this 
several times when my backbone (gatech) bounces it back to me.

I would also appriceate any help or hints as what to look for.