[net.news] Duplicated articles springing up like toadstools...

wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (10/17/84)

Is it just this host, or are you all seeing many, many duplicated articles
in just about every newsgroup? It seems like 9 out of ten groups I look at
contain several articles which appear twice, sometimes right after one
another, and sometimes with a number of other articles in between.

These are articles from many different posters, including some of the
well-known and highly-experienced net personalities, so I cannot
attribute the cause to novices posting the same article twice in error.
They seem to have come by a variety of paths; they even include a
few of the infamous "false-zero-length" items. 

If this is a general plague, can anyone suggest a cause (and cure)?

Will Martin

spw2562@ritcv.UUCP () (10/18/84)

[ I don't believe in line-eat...   AAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHmph *smack* ]

I've seen that happen here at RIT.  I don't know if the pathnames were
the same, but the articles were identicle, and were posted by the same
person ( or the computer under the guise of being the same person ).

					Steve Wall
					...!ritcv!ritvp!spw2562

greg@sdcsvax.UUCP (Greg Noel) (10/20/84)

I have seen them here at sdcsvax.  In particular, I have seen them coming from
sdcc6 (which is only one hop from here), and by a frequent (and presumably
experienced) poster.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Torrey Pines       Greg@sdcsvax.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA