Re: Internet.bcsmac.org duplicated FAQ server postings

Ping Huang (pshuang@nowhere.esd.sgi.com)
Wed, 13 Dec 1995 10:23:43 -0800

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> Why do I observe duplicate postings of the FAQs, although I only told the
> FAQ server to send them? Who is Internet.bcsmac.org and why does he claim
> that I sent the message?
>
> I just wanted to ask the wisdom of this group before I get flamed by the
> newsgroup on posting multiple copies of 100 k files. Maybe someone here
> knows the reason and the button to press in order to make it stop for
> future postings. Am I the only one that had to observe this behaviour? What
> have I done wrong?

You haven't done anything wrong yourself to cause this to happen.
Some sites which are getting news feeds are running broken software
--- BBS's such as Fidonet nodes seem to be particular prone to this
problem --- that regurgitate postings back to Usenet as postings.
This is not a problem specific to the *.answers newsgroups. About the
best that you can do is to complain loudly to the postmaster or other
administrators at the site with the broken software. You might also
complain to the immediate feeds of the site, which appears to be
wizard.pn.com and the UUCP site ci-pionere.

You might also be able to justifiably cancel the message, based on the
argument that the broken software in effect forged a message as
appearing to be from you. However, I do not intend to either advocate
or discourage you from doing so by mentioning this.

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