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From:	dj (DJ Delorie)
Subject:	double posting apology
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Date:	Sat, 3 Jun 1995 00:22:22 GMT
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To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Dj-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

If you think that lots of articles are getting double posted to the
news group, you're right.  My mistake.  There were two programs
involved; one that stripped out mail-specific headers on the way to
the newsgroup, and one that put headers in to tell it not to go to the
newsgroup.  It worked like this:

	post to comp.os.msdos.djgpp
	gateway reads and adds "X-DJ-Gateway: from comp.os.msdos.djgpp"
	article mailed to mailing list
	article received from mailing list
	All mail-specific headers, including "X-*", removed.
	Check for X-DJ-Gateway (of course, it's missing)
	Don't see it, post article to newsgroup.

Obviously, the "X-" headers should stay, but I was reusing the
stripping program from the mail archiver, and didn't remember that it
took them out.  I added an option to leave X-* headers in, and put
that option in the gateway.  This should have two affects:

1. mail posted to c.o.m.d will now have the X-* lines from the sender

2. double posts should stop (at least, those that are my fault ;-)

Articles originating with the mailing list worked OK, since the
newsreader doesn't strip anything.

Sorry for any inconvenience,
DJ

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