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Article #343Regarding AOL news bug
From: Bob Pearson
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 15:17
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 15:17
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On The morning of 2 March 1994, USENET system maintainers at America
Online discovered a small but critical bug in its news posting software.
As a result of this bug, approximately one thousand extraneous news articles
(duplicates) were generated and sent to the USENET.
When the bug was discovered steps were immediately taken to stem the
tide of outgoing articles, including issuing cancels for the offending
messages.
On behalf of America Online, we apologize for the inadvertent
blanketing; we regret the inevitable inconvenience which has resulted from
this bug. We would also like to direct a particular apology to any of our
users who may have received undue criticism for a problem which did not
result from their actions. We are confident that the bug which caused the
extraneous copies has been excised and that this event will not happen in
the future.
Sincerely,
Bob Pearson
News Administration and Development
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-bobp Bob Pearson bobp@aol.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110452,9548f945c6408347,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110452,public X-Google-Thread: 10350b,9548f945c6408347,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10350b,public X-Google-Thread: fed56,9548f945c6408347,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfed56,public X-Google-Thread: 1085e3,9548f945c6408347,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1085e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10a922,9548f945c6408347,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a922,public X-Google-Thread: 1139f4,9548f945c6408347,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1139f4,public X-Google-Thread: fd705,9548f945c6408347,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd705,public X-Google-Thread: 108f98,9548f945c6408347,start X-Google-Attributes: gid108f98,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-03-04 07:17:59 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de!news.coli.uni-sb.de!news.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!zib-berlin.de!netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!hp81.prod.aol.net!bobp From: bobp@aol.net (Bob Pearson) Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,news.admin.misc,alt.online-service,alt.online-service.america-online,aol.newsgroups.bugs,aol.newsgroups.help,alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,news.newusers.questions,rec.games.hack Subject: Regarding AOL news bug Followup-To: alt.online-service.america-online Date: 4 Mar 1994 15:17:59 GMT Organization: America Online Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2l7jf7$740@hp81.prod.aol.net> Reply-To: newsmaster@aol.com NNTP-Posting-Host: staypuff.hp.aol.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]