njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich;?) (01/29/91)
Back at the beginning of December, I posted a recipe for Buffalo Wings. It was a good recipe, and someone else thought so, because they saved it, and when someone asked for help making buffalo wings, they posted a collection of recipes which included my posting, and its headers, following a control-L. I'm not sure what is happening. I got a note from Melissa of JPL, asking "Why does this get posted over and over again?" I thought that it was a good recipe and that maybe she was complaining because a couple of people had reposted it, but no, she was complaining because many sites had decided that this part of another posting was in fact a separate posting, and had applied a new article ID to the posting and started it off again. I don't know what to do about this. I suspect it is too late. I might consider issuing cancels against about a hundred of these wild articles since they appear to come from me, and hope that some folks are happier. I've cross posted to news.software.b in the hopes that someone can determine what is going on. Is this a known error and just a down level site (or several)? Can someone explain it to me? (To the folks in rec.food.cooking, I apologize, but I really didn't post it a hundred times...) -- Nick Simicich - uunet!bywater!scifi!njs - njs@ibm.com SSI #AOWI 3958, HSA 318
campbell@acsu.buffalo.edu (roger campbell) (01/29/91)
In article <1991Jan29.030040.26170@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich;?) writes: >Back at the beginning of December, I posted a recipe for Buffalo >Wings. > >I'm not sure what is happening. I got a note from Melissa of JPL, >asking "Why does this get posted over and over again?" I thought that > >Is this a known error and just a down level site (or several)? Can >someone explain it to me? > >(To the folks in rec.food.cooking, I apologize, but I really didn't >post it a hundred times...) > >-- >Nick Simicich - uunet!bywater!scifi!njs - njs@ibm.com >SSI #AOWI 3958, HSA 318 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick, and everyone else, It does seem to be a down-level site problem, one of the nodes seems to hiccup and send out multiples. It's not just the chicken wing and related stuff, I'm getting multiples on a number of other postings also. It does however, seem to be only the rec.food.* stuff, at least as I see it here. None of the other groups I read are showing this problem. Maybe some net administrator could trace this down, and determine which site is having the problem..... In the meantime, Nick, I know it's not your fault. Folks, don't get on Nick's back over this, he isn't the culprit. In the mean-time, use your KILL file. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ..There is no indigestion worse than that which comes from having to eat your own words. Roger Campbell State Univ. of New York at Buffalo (716) 636-3547 BITNET: CAMPBELL@UBVM INTERNET: campbell@acsu.buffalo.edu
glass@vixvax.mgi.com (William H. Glass) (01/30/91)
In article <1991Jan29.030040.26170@scifi.uucp>, njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich;?) writes: > > I'm not sure what is happening. I got a note from Melissa of JPL, > asking "Why does this get posted over and over again?" I thought that > it was a good recipe and that maybe she was complaining because a > couple of people had reposted it, but no, she was complaining because > many sites had decided that this part of another posting was in fact a > separate posting, and had applied a new article ID to the posting and > started it off again. What you've just done is to conduct a survey of how many sites run ANU-NEWS (my site is one of the offenders). ANU-NEWS has a little feature to deal with articles processed through VMS MAIL. If the program sees a form feed (Control-L) followed immediately by "From:", it believes that it is starting a new article. The "article" of course doesn't have a Message-ID, but some releases of ANU-NEWS have a bug that allows the program to make up a new one. At that point, you now have created a new article, and it starts its way around the net. Those of us who run ANU-NEWS are aware of the problem, and we're trying to get it fixed. However, it takes a while for all sites to convert to a new release, so I expect that there will continue to be problems like this on occasion for some time. -- William H. Glass Internet: glass@mgi.com Management Graphics, Inc. Phone: +1 (612) 854-1220 1401 E. 79th Street Minneapolis, MN 55425