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From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: net overload...duplicate articles
Message-ID: <781@ihuxp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 13:22:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxp.781
Posted: Wed Jun 13 13:22:02 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 00:33:27 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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I know that using vnews you will not see a posting to multiple
newsgroups after the first time that you view the article.  Using
a single transmission posting to multiple groups therefor does not
bother you.  And the additional bytes transmitted are the group names
for the multiple postings.

The problem is when people do not use multiple newsgroups for a
posting.  They will post to one group after sourcing in a file
containing their article, and then will post to another group after
sourcing in the same file.  Therefor, you have two articles created
that are exactly the same except they are destined for differant
newsgroups.  This is especially prevalient in two local area groups,
ih.wanted and chi.wanted.

Of course the way to correct this situation is through education.
Also, could one way to fix the problem of people posting the same 
info in differant articles differing only in news groups be to 
not put an article out onto the net until a time has expired, say an
hour, in which an article with the same title is also generated and is
in responce to the same references?  



Walt Pesch
AT&T Technologies
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