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From:	Tom Wheeley <tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release
Subject:	Re: Duplicate posts and MSNEWS wierdness Was: Re: NT4.0 and long filenames under DOS
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 96 23:17:37 GMT
Organization:	City Zen FM
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Message-ID:	<840583057snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
References:	<1996Aug14 DOT 0415260128 DOT 85 DOT 214 AT UPPSSNEWSPUB05> <32120C9A DOT 4A1D AT btmaa DOT bel DOT alcatel DOT be> <4ute2j$ce9 AT rs18 DOT hrz DOT th-darmstadt DOT de> <32138941 DOT 2712360 AT nnrp DOT wat DOT hookup DOT net> <3218afe4 DOT 1109632 AT news DOT wolfenet DOT com>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In article <3218afe4 DOT 1109632 AT news DOT wolfenet DOT com>
           greg AT wolfenet DOT com "Gregory Phillips" writes:

> Check out the discussions in news.admin.net-abuse.misc
> 
> The general opinion is that it is all caused by the microsoft news server
> doing the unheard of, accepting posts, assigning them a NEW ID, and posting
> them to the ms-news groups.  These get read by other news servers and
> posted (again) as new articles.

You would have thought that UPPSNEWS05 would see itself in the Path: header,
and therefore give up.  I read (somewhere) that that was one of the reasons
behind the Path: header, but I could be wrong.

(FYI, at least one of the posts had UPPSNEWS05 twice in its Path header.)

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