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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Nasty mailing list echo
Message-ID: <1994Oct18.115418.11255@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: The Internet
References: <37qa8n$edb@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 11:54:18 GMT
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sef@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Fahlman) writes:


>Looks like we've got us a loop of some kind, leading to lots of
>repeated messages on "comp.lang.dylan".  I don't know if the problem
>also appears on the mailing list.  The guilty party seems to be:

> Notesfile to Usenet Gateway <notes@glas.apc.org

>is responsible.  Anyone know who "apc.org" is?  Is that part of the
>official machinery for funneling the newsgroup to the list and vice
>versa, or is it some private archiver run amok?

I think the problem is on the netnews side, not on the mailinglist.

Gateways like like modify the message-ID of articles (which is
illegal), so your local news software don't realize that this article
has been spooled before. Therefore, a second article with same
contents is spooled.

Look at the Message-IDs of duplicated articles and on the Path:, that
should show the quilty site (usually a gateway to a message system
other than usenet, amateurisch).
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