ber@enea.UUCP (Bjorn Eriksen) (10/13/84)
How many articles are really generated at sri-arpa? If news articles
don't expire for about 6 weeks, the same messages-id's start to
reappear from sri-arpa, which will cause inews to find duplicate
articels. Any ideas what's going on?
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Bjorn Eriksen
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ARPA: decvax!mcvax!enea!ber@Berkeleychuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) (10/15/84)
> > How many articles are really generated at sri-arpa? If news articles > don't expire for about 6 weeks, the same messages-id's start to > reappear from sri-arpa, which will cause inews to find duplicate > articels. Any ideas what's going on? sri-arpa is the main link from the arpanet to the usenet. Everything from the arpanet for net.unix-wizards, net.unix, net.micro, net.lang.c, net.micro.cpm, ad nauseum flows through it. That is why they turn over so quickly. I don't know that there is much we can do about it... chuq -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA How about 'reason for living?'
fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (10/18/84)
Actually, the solution is quite simple:
Since all of sri-unix's ``netnews'' articles originate as mail,
sri-unix can use the message-id on the mail itself (a required field by
RFC822) instead of generating one itself. Message-id's from the
internet are also required to be unique network wide. If the letter
doesn't have a message-id field, sri-unix can generate one in the usual
way, and have the program mail a nasty note to the postmaster of the
offending internet host.
Andrew Knutsen, are you listening?
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