batie@agora.uucp (Alan Batie) (12/06/90)
One of my users posted an article to rec.autos.tech, and it seems that it has developed reproductive tendencies of amazing proportions. In looking at the original article, I find this: + Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech + Path: agora!tedm + From: tedm@agora.uucp (Ted Mittelstaedt) + Subject: Snake Oil Remedies + Message-ID: <1990Nov30.061341.14221@agora.uucp> + Keywords: Pre-oilers Slick 50 Platinum Gas enhancers Water Injection + + Victor Johnson asks if anyone has had experience with Pre-oilers, Slick 50, + Platinum Gas Enhancers, + Organization: Open Communications Forum + Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 06:13:41 GMT + + I have seen this subject brought up before in rec.autos and the general + concensus seems to be that a pre-oiler will simply pressurize the oil gallery Note that there are spaces on the blank line after "Keywords:". In looking at the headers sent to me from various sites, it seems that many systems are deciding to give the article a new Message-id, which, of course means that it will be considered a new article. I'm not sure what to do about it, hence this posting. A cancel message wouldn't work because there's zillions of message-ids, and I strongly doubt it would catch up anyhow. Since there are only a few dozen duplicates, and not 30,000, I would guess that only a certain release of news software is responsible; a previous similar occurrance from another site gave indications that the particular sites were all VMS systems. If I remember correctly, I think the bad lines are to be interpreted as part of the Keywords: header. Alternatively, everything after the Keywords header should be considered part of the body, and since the Message-id is before that, I don't understand why the systems in question decided the message needed a new one. I'm running C news, patchlevel 90.04.16, and "Trn v1.0 based on rn patchlevel 47" on Unix V/386 R4.0 V1.0. -- Alan Batie Some people believe they have batie@agora.uucp never met a gay person. +1 503 640-4013 That's what we get for hiding.