Re: bincancels in linux.kernel

Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 19:50:42 -0800


Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> writes:

> The big problem is when multiple gateways to news exist in multiple
> hierarchies. News servers accept a certain message only once - and the
> only thing that is looked at is the message-id.

> So if your news server gets fa.linux.kernel and linux.kernel, half of
> the articles will end up in the first group and half of the articles in
> the second.

fa.linux.kernel rewrites the message IDs. I believe that linux.kernel
does as well.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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