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From: munnari!anu.anu.oz.au!gih900@CSC1.ANU.OZ.AU (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: RE: What does 'REJECT (looping item)' really mean?
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Date: 12 Feb 90 15:51:10 GMT
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>        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.  Two 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.
     
184ec is the RMS duplicate record code - if the item already exists in the
news.items file, then RMS will fail - the error is a duplication of the message
id field.
     
The b0010001 return code is returned when the item is located in the history
file - i.e. you had it, and have expired it locally already.
     
try SET NOHISTORY and see what errors you get.
     
     
Geoff Huston