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In article <1992Oct2.155928.23176@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk
(Alasdair Grant) says:
>Could someone have a look at comp.lang.asm370 please? All messages
>submitted from Usenet appear to be duplicated - perhaps the BITNET
>gateway is reposting to Usenet all messages, even those _from_ Usenet.
>Could be because the group is not of the form 'bit.listserv...'?
>This has been going on for years, but it's such a dull group I guess
>nobody's ever bothered to say anything.

Boring? LTR? BXLE? MVCL? ICM? These are the stuff of life!  :-)

I took a look at this a while back. The reason comp.lang.asm has
duplicates is that Erik Fair's gateway at ucbvax does not preserve
Message-ID's. (I suspect it is subscribed to ASM370 without the FULLHDR
option and so Message-ID's are not sent to it.) Regardless of the reason,
the gateway to comp.lang.asm370 is disregarding Message-ID's and is
generating new ones for each post. This results in duplicate posts to
comp.lang.asm370 since duplicate posts have no way of being detected
without the Message-ID tag.
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Jim McIntosh (jim@american.edu)
The American University
Washington DC 20016-8019 USA