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From: alrudder AT hookup DOT net (Al Rudderham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release
Subject: Duplicate posts and MSNEWS wierdness  Was: Re: NT4.0 and long filenames under DOS
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 00:15:10 GMT
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On 14 Aug 1996 20:48:19 GMT, lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander
Lehmann) wrote:

>In comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release Nico Holvoet <holvoetn AT btmaa DOT bel DOT alcatel DOT be> wrote:
>
>: Hey, Dude,
>
>: How many times you think you are going to post this again ???
>
>: (I already counted more than ten (10))
>
>Actually, I have posted the article only once with the message-ID
><4uqcok$25qs AT rs18 DOT hrz DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>, it seems that some system
>called UPPSSNEWSPUB05 (no domain in the messsage-ID, so I don't know
>what that is) has reposted the article, different followups have
>different MSG-IDs with UPPSSNEWSPUB05 after the @ as first Reference.
>
>I haven't seen any of the repost articles, maybe they cleaned up their
>spew already.

Originally, you posted this to microsoft.public.windowsnt.40beta on
msnews.microsoft.com as well as comp.os.msdos.djgpp and
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release.

I think something has gone seriously wrong with MSNEWS.  In the last few
days there have been many posts showing up in "regular" newsgroups that are
heavily duplicated.  (Although yours does seem to be the worst.)

As well, I have been unable to access MSNEWS for the last 3-4 days.  At
first it did not respond for a day.  Then it came back online, and I saw a
huge number of new headers, although most were duplicated.  Since then I
can reach it, but there are NO new headers to retrieve, in normally busy
newsgroups.

As an aside, I use Agent .99e under NT, and Agent does not support multiple
news servers.  To work around that I start a 2nd copy from a 2nd directory.
This works fine normally.  But it leaves me with 2 seperate views of
newsgroups - those served by my ISP (which does not carry
microsoft.public.*) and those served by msnews.microsoft.com.

All of the "regular" newsgroups (those from my ISP's server) I watch are
working fine.  Except that there are some duplicated posts, like yours.
I've noticed that in every case those duplicates were crossposted to at
least one microsoft.public group too.

I suspect that something has gone seriously wrong with MSNEWS...