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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: What does 'REJECT (looping item)' really mean?
Message-ID: <22198.25d2f279@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 90 22:40:25 GMT
References: <958.25d1fe71@dayton.saic.com>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <958.25d1fe71@dayton.saic.com>, fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) writes:
> 	What in the world does "REJECT (looping item)" really mean when adding 
> an article to NEWS?  I suspect that because I have two sites feeding me NEWS 
> that it really means that the article has already been posted and this is a 
> duplicate. I tried to track down where this message came from. I found it in 
> NEWSADD.C. 2 possibilities exist. A return code of 'b00184ec' and 'b0010001'
> would do it.  I changed 'b00184ec' to return 'Duplicate MsgID' and tried it 
> again. I still get 'looping item'. The RMS code 184ec means duplicate record.
> What really does this mean and can the message be changed to something more 
> meaningful?  Thanks.

In V5.8 and earlier this was reported as "duplicate item."  What it
means is that the article is already in the news database, based on
the group number and the article id, thus the "duplicate record" status.
I tend to agree that "looping item" probably isn't the best possible
error message, but it isn't all that bad.  "Looping item" means that
NEWS has seen this before.  I would prefer "duplicate item" but I
think it is a minor matter.
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