jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) (08/09/90)
This is reaching new levels of absurdity. We are now receiving no less
than *FOUR* copies of every article posted to this news group. It seems
to go like this:
1. An original article is posted
2. A duplicate of the original is posted by "root@apollo.HP.COM"
3. A duplicate of the original is posted by "uucpnews@texhrc.UUCP"
4. A duplicate of the duplicate from apollo.HP.COM is posted
by "uucpnews@texhrc.UUCP"
Of course, I have tried mailing to root, postmaster, and various other
likely names on both of these machines, with no results. If no one on
either of these machines is reading this group, perhaps someone who is
a reasonably close neighbor is, and could contact them about this?
I have also received mail from Kee Hinckley explaining that he is doing
everything he can to keep duplicates out of the mailing list. I think,
though, that this problem is specifically with the news group, not with
the mailing list. In fact, it seems to me that if the news group and
mailing list have a bi-directional gateway, which I believe is the case,
then it might be the news group which is causing the problem with dups
on the mailing list.
I realize that subscribing to the mailing list instead of the news group
might eliminate most or all of the duplicates. However, we pay a fixed
fee for the news, but we pay by the kilobyte for mail. At least with the
news group the duplicates only cost me because of the incremental modem
time they require.
Also, it is not at all clear how long Kee Hinckley will have both the time
and the patience to manually filter each and every posting to the mailing
list to eliminate duplicates.
jw