Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Duplicate articles from B news site - would C news help ??
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.175142.18296@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <ianh.659156546@morgana>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 90 17:51:42 GMT

In article <ianh.659156546@morgana> ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes:
>Since moving to C news in the past week (with the associated monitoring of
>log files to make sure everything is working) I've noticed lots of duplicated
>articles being fed to us from our single, upstream newsfeed...

You shouldn't be getting literally-duplicate articles -- same article twice --
from any properly functioning news system, B or C.  However, beware:  there
has been at least one incident recently of a combination of software oddities
causing repeated posting of articles which *looked* similar but were really
different articles, with different message-IDs.  There is nothing any news
system can do about that.
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"I'm not sure it's possible            | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
to explain how X works."               |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
