Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Noise in Message ID's causing dupes Message-ID: <14751@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 28 Sep 89 14:15:44 GMT Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Distribution: na Organization: ^ Lines: 45 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: OK, here's an example. Someone trashed a message ID en route, enabling B news to post a dupe. *** 3218 Wed Sep 27 17:02:21 1989 --- 3232 Thu Sep 28 07:02:40 1989 *************** *** 1,8 **** ! Path: bfmny0!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV!pjs From: pjs@ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Alternative Space Goals, Anyone? (was Re: SpaceCause) ! Message-ID: <8909271818.AA01035@aristotle.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 27 Sep 89 18:18:24 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet --- 1,8 ---- ! Path: bfmny0!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bionet!ames!lll-lcc!unisoft!mtxinu!ucbvax!ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV!pjs From: pjs@ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Alternative Space Goals, Anyone? (was Re: SpaceCause) ! Message-ID: <890=271818.AA01035@aristotle.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 27 Sep 89 18:18:24 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet By lighting the 0x04 bit in one character of the message, POSSIBLY ucbvax but MORE LIKELY one of wuarchive brutus.cs.uiuc.edu apple bionet ames lll-lcc unisoft mtxinu caused the problem. This could have occurred in transmission or during news processing. If anyone else has this message with the "=" character in the message ID and can cross-check with the above list, a culprit might be identified. -- "We plan absentee ownership. I'll stick to `o' Tom Neff building ships." -- George Steinbrenner, 1973 o"o tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET