Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Duplicated articles springing up like toadstools... Message-ID: <5359@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 13:51:51 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5359 Posted: Wed Oct 17 13:51:51 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 19:09:38 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 14 Is it just this host, or are you all seeing many, many duplicated articles in just about every newsgroup? It seems like 9 out of ten groups I look at contain several articles which appear twice, sometimes right after one another, and sometimes with a number of other articles in between. These are articles from many different posters, including some of the well-known and highly-experienced net personalities, so I cannot attribute the cause to novices posting the same article twice in error. They seem to have come by a variety of paths; they even include a few of the infamous "false-zero-length" items. If this is a general plague, can anyone suggest a cause (and cure)? Will Martin