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From: hst@heichem.cologne.de (Heinz Stuesser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Posting loop someplace?
Date: 27 May 1997 23:07:20 +0200
Organization: Heinz Stuesser, Germany
Lines: 62
Message-ID: <5mfie8$1hu@heichem.cologne.de>
References: <01bc5a0b$5918aa20$18af65cc@reality> <33712028.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5ksqoj$el1$1@shelby.visix.com> <3383979B.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> <slrn5o8oul.63k.sec@matrix.42.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.cologne.de
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Hello, 
in article <slrn5o8oul.63k.sec@matrix.42.org>, 
sec@matrix.42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) wrote:

> In article <3383979B.2781E494@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Is it just me, or are other folks noticing that some postings often get
> > repeated a 2-3 weeks after initial posting?  Have we got some errant
> > site feeding old articles back into the group again?
> 
> I didn't recognice that, but then i'm reading thin in the news which does a
> good job at avoiding duplicates :) - maybe you should store some duplicate
> messages, and compare the recieved-headers, so you can detirme where they
> really come from :)
> 
> CU,
> 	Sec
> -- 
> Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt,
> Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling
> 							    Error 0: No error

I just recognized, that today (27th may) several articles where posted twice.
When I made a diff between some of the involved articles, I always found something
like:

--- BEGIN of diff ---

< Path: heichem.cologne.de!news.cologne.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news-koe1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn
.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-was.dfn.de!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news
.bbnplanet.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail
---
> Path: heichem.cologne.de!news.cologne.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news-koe1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn
.de!news-was.dfn.de!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!news.onramp.net!news.nkn.net!news.pan
ther.net!nemesis!hammy!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lightspeed.net!news
-ana-7.sprintlink.net!news-west.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.ne
t!Sprint!europa.clark.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail
7,9c7,11
< Lines: 12
< Message-ID: <338a5349.25388126@news.mcs.com>
< NNTP-Posting-Host: arubino.pr.mcs.net
---
> Lines: 13
> Message-ID: <0B8144944D1D050E.F25803FE40542CF3.72CBE5862CECBF24@library-proxy.airnews.ne
t>
> X-Orig-Message-ID: <338a5349.25388126@news.mcs.com>
> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net
> NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com

--- END of diff ---

And the only common in all cases is:

> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net
> NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com

Looks like the origin of the doubled postings, isn' t it?

Bye


Heinz