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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: trying to locate duplicate articles
Message-ID: <78@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 23:36:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 30 23:36:46 1983
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One possible cause of a dropped message id is if a site sends
news to another site in A format.  I just discovered that decvax,
while running 2.10 and having mostly 2.10 neighbors, is sending
news to several sites in A format.  A format will lose much
information, including the message ID.

Could I ask news admins to double check their sys files to make
sure that A format isn't being used, unless their neighbor is
really running A news?  (A+ understands B format.)  I don't know
of many sites on the net still running A (microsoft is the only
one I can think of, and I'm not sure about them), so A's are
unlikely to be needed anymore.

	Mark Horton