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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)
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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.
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