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Re: NewsBorg serving up duplicated articles

#361
From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:00
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In article <869829716snz@microvest.demon.co.uk>
           tgold@panix.com "Anthony R. Gold" writes:

> In article <869817068snz@dsl.co.uk>
>            bhk@dsl.co.uk "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" writes:
> 
> > Yesterday I discovered a thread (in alt.satellite.tv.europe) where
> > *every* article appeared twice; to aid identification of the thread, the
> > first article has Message-ID <33D61F24.13B1@interport.net>.
> 
> From the information you gave, it's really not clear that ka9q did
> receive two copies or that newsborg did anything wrong whatever. I
> believe that what you have seen is solely the result of unbatch
> taking the list of newsgroups from the header of one single copy of
> the article and then acting literally and according to the stupid
> instruction that it found there.

Hmm.  Now why didn't *I* think of that?  You're quite right, Tony, it
*is* unbatch that's responsible, so I must withdraw my vile calumnies
against the Borg; demon.ip.support,demon.ip.support.pc added back in to
distribution, so that the apology gets equal airing: follow-ups to
demon.ip.developers as before.

[Courtesy copy once again to newsmaster@demon.net: sorry, aDe]

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
   "Where do you want to go today?", ask M$.  According to their TV adverts:
          "confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis...", which means:
                   "the damned and accused are convicted to flames of Hell"!
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From: bhk@dsl.co.uk (Brian {Hamilton Kelly})
Subject: Re: NewsBorg serving up duplicated articles
Date: 1997/07/28
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