Re: Large numbers of duplicate articles

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From: Anthony Gold
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 00:00

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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (bhk@dsl.co.uk) wrote:

: 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?

Unless you have a very small number of newsgroups, your nntp client will
issue many NEWNEWS commands, each with a separate list of newsgroups.  I
believe that any newsborg change is unlikely to prevent duplicates and
would urge Demon to allocate their scarce development resources elsewhere. 
-- 
   Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM                  email: tgold@panix.com
                                                tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk
                                        packet: g3skr@n0ary.#nocal.ca.usa.na

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Subject: Re: Large numbers of duplicate articles
Date: 1996/05/19
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