[net.news] Repeated messages

puder (09/21/82)

Is there a bug in news out there someplace, or what?  We have been receiving
duplicates of several messages from news.  When I bother to check, I find
that they have different postmarks (usually different by 1), but usually
identical contents.  Are people sending these duplicates (in the cases that
the message is not exactly identical, probably so) or is there a site out
there with a virus in its news?

jis (09/22/82)

I have noticed some interesting patterns in the repeated messages. Most of
them seem to come either from ARPANET or from fortune. Th{_e repeated
messages from fortune tend to differ in their article number by 13!!
Do these observations indicate anything significant?

Oh Well...

J.Mukerji
BTL Holmdel
hocsd!jis