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 In article <854729830_OASIS_@nordnet.fr>
  bkozlowski@nordnet.fr (Bruno Kozlowski) said:-

> In article <854488610_OASIS_@pwomar.demon.co.uk>
>  Paul@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) said:-
>
>>On a completely different note, have you had cross-posted articles being
>>duplicated in groups where you subscribe to both eg c.s.a.s & d.i.s.a?
>>It seems to have happened since the new news servers were in place but
>>possibly it's just bad handling by Oasis.
>
>    To avoid it (partly) try to lower "nntp batch xx" value. The server
>program used by Demon (NewsBorg?) gives as many times the ID of a message
>in reply to a NEWNEWS command as there are groups you want with the
>message crossposted in them. Other programs (INN all versions) give it
>only once. NOS looks in HISTORY if the ID is there before asking the
>article for the second time, but if (with many batch buffers) it's time to
>request this ID before the first request (for the same ID) succeeded,
>you'll have the article twice (or more!), as the IDs for received article
>are stored in HISTORY only after they are received...
>
>    I reduced batch buffers from 48 to 24, still have one or two
>duplicates from time to time, but eliminate them before unbatching.

Ahh thanks, that is almost certainly the answer, I recently upped the 
value a fair bit in order to help speed (which it did) but with this 
unfortunate side effect :-( Anyway big thanks, I'd forgotten I'd 
changed anything atall.
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