gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (10/21/86)
The site "ndmce" is screwing up news by replacing messages' original message-id's with its own message-id's. This causes the messages to be sent twice to each system in the Usenet, since the message-id is used to tell whether a message has been received already. My news log files show 66 such messages in the last two weeks. Here is an example. This is the header of the original message: Path: hoptoad!ptsfa!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!ece-csc!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!barnettb From: barnettb@vdsvax.uucp (Barnett Bruce G) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Seeking a Development Environment (Sun?) Message-ID: <935@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: 9 Oct 86 16:55:19 GMT References: <4254@brl-smoke.ARPA> Sender: root@steinmetz.UUCP Reply-To: barnettb@steinmetz.UUCP (Barnett Bruce G) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 206 Summary: Apollo 0, Sun 1 In article <4254@brl-smoke.ARPA> giebelhaus@umn-cs.arpa writes: >My experience is that Apollo is much better for professional software >development and Sun is better for hacking. ... Here is the second copy which was created by ndmce: Path: hoptoad!ptsfa!qantel!ihnp4!cbatt!clyde!cuae2!ltuxa!we53!sw013b!dj3b1!killer!ndmce!pollux!infotel!ut-ngp!ut-sally!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!ece-csc!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!barnettb From: barnettb@vdsvax.uucp@ndmce.uucp (Barnett Bruce G) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Seeking a Development Environment (Sun?) Message-ID: <298@ndmce.uucp> Date: 17 Oct 86 20:59:10 GMT References: <4254@brl-smoke.ARPA> Sender: news@ndmce.uucp Reply-To: barnettb@steinmetz.UUCP (Barnett Bruce G) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 206 Summary: Apollo 0, Sun 1 In article <4254@brl-smoke.ARPA> giebelhaus@umn-cs.arpa writes: >My experience is that Apollo is much better for professional software >development and Sun is better for hacking. ... I SUGGEST TAKING NDMCE OFF THE NET UNTIL THEY FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM. From their map entry, they are running notes 1.7. I have seen this problem occur before, but I don't know what causes it. Has anybody fixed this before? If so, call Terry Poot at ndmce: +1 214 739 4741. -- John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa (C) Copyright 1986 by John Gilmore. May the Source be with you!