jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers) (01/13/87)
Lately, we've been receiving two copies of lots of articles. There are some common patterns in the replications. They are usually identical, except for three differences. First, the sequence numbers differ by one. Second, the line counts are usually different. Third, one of them usually has two copies of the .signature file. The text appears to be identical in both articles. Here are the headers from a recent example. I'm not trying to pick on the submitter, of course; he is almost certainly not to blame. I do suspect that the culprit is the postnews (or inews) on ur-valhalla, but in fact this can't be determined from where I am. It is conceivable that some other system is replicating the article, changing the sequence number (and thus suppressing another valid article), and duplicating the .signature stuff, but I kinda doubt it. It would take some rather sophisticated coding to replicate just the .signature portion of an article, and I don't think anyone would do this as a prank. Anyhow, here are the headers. I can give lots of other examples. Perhaps if we get enough examples, we can find out who the culprit is. Its even possible that it's just our rnews that's doing it, but I don't really think so. I followed one of the replications all the way into the compressed batch input, and both articles were really there. > From adelie!necntc!husc6!mit-eddie!rutgers!lll-lcc!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!ur-valhalla!badri Mon Jan 12 11:55:02 1987 > Path: cdx39!adelie!necntc!husc6!mit-eddie!rutgers!lll-lcc!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!ur-valhalla!badri > From: badri@ur-valhalla.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan) > Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp > Subject: Routing mail over uucp overriding smail > Keywords: routing,smail > Message-ID: <993@ur-valhalla.UUCP> > Date: 12 Jan 87 16:55:02 GMT > Organization: EE VLSI Graduate Research Facility, UR, Rochester NY 14627 > Lines: 52 > [Text deleted] > > Badri Lokanathan > -- > "I care about my fellow man {) ur-valhalla!badri@rochester.arpa > Being taken for a ride, //\\ {ames,caip,cmcl2,columbia,cornell, > I care that things start changing ///\\\ harvard,ll-xn,rutgers,seismo, > But there's no one on my side."-UB40 _||_ topaz}!rochester!ur-valhalla!badri > -- > "We will fight for the right to be free {) ur-valhalla!badri@rochester.arpa > We will build our own society //\\ {ames,caip,cmcl2,columbia,cornell, > And we will sing, we will sing ///\\\ harvard,ll-xn,rutgers,seismo, > We will sing our own song." -UB40 _||_ topaz}!rochester!ur-valhalla!badri Here's the second copy. Note that the sequence number is one higher (994), and there's only one copy of the .signature file. > From adelie!necntc!husc6!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!ur-valhalla!badri Mon Jan 12 13:56:52 1987 > Path: cdx39!adelie!necntc!husc6!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!ur-valhalla!badri > From: badri@ur-valhalla.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan) > Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp > Subject: Routing mail on uucp overriding smail > Keywords: routing,smail,sendmail.cf > Message-ID: <994@ur-valhalla.UUCP> > Date: 12 Jan 87 18:56:52 GMT > Organization: EE VLSI Graduate Research Facility, UR, Rochester NY 14627 > Lines: 48 > [Text deleted] > > Badri Lokanathan > -- > "We will fight for the right to be free {) ur-valhalla!badri@rochester.arpa > We will build our own society //\\ {ames,caip,cmcl2,columbia,cornell, > And we will sing, we will sing ///\\\ harvard,ll-xn,rutgers,seismo, > We will sing our own song." -UB40 _||_ topaz}!rochester!ur-valhalla!badri Anyone got any ideas? Has this all been worked out before? If so, can we get together and gang up on the systems with the buggy inews (or whatever), and get a good version installed? [In order to satisfy the more-new-text-than-inclusion, here are lots of blank lines:-] -- John M Chambers Phone: 617/364-2000x7304 Email: ...{adelie,bu-cs,harvax,inmet,mcsbos,mit-eddie,mot[bos]}!cdx39!{jc,news,root,usenet,uucp} Smail: Codex Corporation; Mailstop C1-30; 20 Cabot Blvd; Mansfield MA 02048-1193 Clever-Saying: If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.