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In article <1991Jan29.030040.26170@scifi.uucp>, njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich;?) writes:
> 
> I'm not sure what is happening.  I got a note from Melissa of JPL,
> asking "Why does this get posted over and over again?"  I thought that
> it was a good recipe and that maybe she was complaining because a
> couple of people had reposted it, but no, she was complaining because
> many sites had decided that this part of another posting was in fact a
> separate posting, and had applied a new article ID to the posting and
> started it off again.  

What you've just done is to conduct a survey of how many sites run ANU-NEWS
(my site is one of the offenders).  ANU-NEWS has a little feature to deal with
articles processed through VMS MAIL.  If the program sees a form feed
(Control-L) followed immediately by "From:", it believes that it is starting
a new article.  The "article" of course doesn't have a Message-ID, but
some releases of ANU-NEWS have a bug that allows the program to make up
a new one.  At that point, you now have created a new article, and it starts
its way around the net.

Those of us who run ANU-NEWS are aware of the problem, and we're trying to
get it fixed.  However, it takes a while for all sites to convert to a new
release, so I expect that there will continue to be problems like this
on occasion for some time.

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