rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (12/05/90)
Recently a couple of articles showed up twice. Here is the header from one example: ----------------- Xref: mp.cs.niu.edu comp.unix.internals:1378 comp.unix.programmer:644 comp.unix.admin:661 comp.unix.internals:1379 Path: mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Preventing date rollback Message-ID: <10605:Dec506:58:1790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 5 Dec 90 06:58:17 GMT References: <RICHARD.90Dec3143525@dataspan.dataspan.UUCP> Organization: IR Lines: 7 ----------------- Notice that both 'comp.unix.internals' and 'comp.unix.wizards' appear in the 'Newsgroups:' header. We have wizards aliased to internals. Apparently the same article has been linked twice into the same news directory. Is this a cnews 'feature' or a bug? -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (12/06/90)
In article <1990Dec5.155010.22577@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > Recently a couple of articles showed up twice... Are you sure it was the *same* article showing up twice? If the Message-ID header is different, it's a different article, even if the text is the same. Having two different articles with the same text show up is not particularly rare; it may indicate problems elsewhere in the net, but the software on your machine is not broken. If the same article -- same message-ID -- shows up twice, then something's wrong on your machine. -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (12/06/90)
In article <1990Dec6.000419.7392@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1990Dec5.155010.22577@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >> Recently a couple of articles showed up twice... > >Are you sure it was the *same* article showing up twice? If the Message-ID >header is different, it's a different article, even if the text is the same. > It was the ***same*** article. Same contents. Same Message-ID. Same inode number. Same line in the history file. Both copies listed on the 'Xref:' header that I enclosed in my original report. I know it did not take more disk space. But it is still an annoyance to news readers. Maybe the problem is rare enough to not be worth dealing with. I was just reporting it. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (12/08/90)
In article <1990Dec6.151202.12961@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > It was the ***same*** article. Same contents. Same Message-ID. Same >inode number. Same line in the history file. Both copies listed on the >'Xref:' header that I enclosed in my original report. Oops, I didn't look closely enough. Right you are. The "=" feature of the C News sys file does not attempt to strip out duplicates from the list of newsgroups that results. One can argue about whether this is a feature or a bug. Geoff doesn't seem to feel it's worth fixing. -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry