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Re: Large numbers of duplicate articles

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 00:00
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (bhk@dsl.co.uk) wrote:

> This is becoming a serious performance hit for me: I can *see* KA9Q
> downloading the bloody dupes (only for unbatch to throw them away
> afterwards).

> Might I suggest that it's NewsBorg that needs fixing: surely it wouldn't
> be too tricky for it to keep a record of the Message-IDs already
> proferred to the client in this NEWNEWS command, and to prevent offering
> the duplicates?  Seems much more sensible to fix that which is broken, on
> three (?) machines, rather than tens of thousands of client programs.

This matter is being discussed with the development team at present.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir                               Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                    322 Regents Park Road
England                                       London N3 2QQ
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From: malcolm@demon.net (Malcolm Muir)
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Date: 1996/05/17
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