Re: duplicated articles

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From: Karl Denninger
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 1990 20:14

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In article <E!wp9w6@cs.psu.edu> jim@augusta.math.psu.edu (Jim Duncan) writes:
>In article <90110.025811ESH101@psuvm.psu.edu> Eric Hvozda
><ESH101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>> It has come to my attention, as well as others, that articles are being
>> duplicated on UseNet.  Does anyone know what is going on?  Are we
>> encountering another virus perhaps?  I have mail from several sites on the
>> east coast confirming that is it not just our site.  Would anyone care to
>> discuss this? 
>
>Yes.  No.  No.

Some gateway is doing this.

We are seeing LARGE NUMBERS of articles which are identical except for the
Message-Id field!  This is a real problem folks!

It's been going on for about two or three months.  We've tried to isolate
it, with no success.  No identifyable path component is in each of these..

Does anyone have a compendium of how message ID's are generated by gateway
software version(s)?  If so we might be able to track down the culprits.

This problem is extremely annoying, and is a real bandwidth waster.
Frankly, when I can see that it's going on without even looking it's a bad
problem -- I only read a couple of dozen newsgroups!  I don't want to think
about the real magnitude of this problem...

--
Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
Public Access Data Line: [+1 708 566-8911], Voice: [+1 708 566-8910]
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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: psu.questions,psu.netnews,bit.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: duplicated articles
Summary: Some gateway is doing this.
Message-ID: <1990Apr24.201422.1614@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 90 20:14:22 GMT
References: <90110.025811ESH101@psuvm.psu.edu> <E!wp9w6@cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. - Mundelein, IL
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