[net.news] Duplicates & triplicates on the net.

holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes) (02/21/84)

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	We now are receiveing great volumes of duplicate news articles, but
lately I have noticed triplicates, and another problem: Duplicates with
double headers!  We got several of these within the last day.  I am
including an example of the headers for two such messages in the hope that
someone can decypher the problem. I have deleted the message bodies.

-------------------- begin first header (our message 421) ---------------
Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dalcs.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k
Path: dalcs!dartvax!decvax!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:aft
From: Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:aft@CS-Mordred.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Unix Pocket Guide
Message-ID: <168@pucc-k>
Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 16:15:48 AST
Article-I.D.: pucc-k.168
Posted: Thu Feb 16 16:15:48 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 01:46:44 AST
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Lines: 22
-------------------- end first header --------------------
--------------- begin second (double) header (our number 428) ----------
Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dalcs.UUCP
Path: dalcs!dartvax!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!houxm!hocda!hou3c!burl!clyde!akgua!jett!aft@pucc-k
From: aft%pucc-k@jett.UUCP (Klosky)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Unix Pocket Guide
Message-ID: <168@pucc-k.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 16:15:48 AST
Article-I.D.: pucc-k.168
Posted: Thu Feb 16 16:15:48 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 04:50:28 AST
Lines: 30

Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k
Path: akgua!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:aft
Message-ID: <168@pucc-k>
Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 15:15:48 EST
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 09:26:58 EST
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
-------------------- end double header --------------------

Something strange is going on here but I don't have time to figure it out,
though it's killing our disk space.
					Ray

ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) (02/22/84)

It looks like a site near akgua (possibly jett) is running a misbehaving
version of A news...
					Kenneth Almquist