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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Weird stuff in my history file (cnews)
Message-ID: <1991May6.180645.23624@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 18:06:45 GMT
References: <1991May6.085649.19174@s1.msi.umn.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May6.085649.19174@s1.msi.umn.edu> molenda@s1.msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda) writes:
><yZZ911w164w@cellar.UUCP>       673077310~-   (Wed May 1 00:55:10 1991 CST)
><yZZ911w164w@cellar.UUCP>       673090384~-   (Wed May 1 04:33:04 1991 CST)
>
>with the human-readable stuff in parens added by me.
>
>Why is this?  The message ids are, as far as I can tell, identical.  Is
>this some weird thing that happens with cancelled articles...

Nope.  Two entries for the same message ID means something's wrong with
duplicate rejection.  No specific thoughts on what, although the standard
caution is to make certain that relaynews and expire agree on what package
is being used for the index, i.e. that they got rebuilt at the same time
with the same library.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
