Awatmath.1578 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Sat Jan 23 12:40:40 1982 duplicate articles Here's an idea for the possible elimination of duplicates. When rnews gets a new articl, and has generated the temporary for it, It could possibly look at the last few articles it has received in that newsgroup. A comparison for length could be done, and if the lengths are within a reasonable distance of eachother (this might be 0), start comparing them byte for byte starting at the termination of the header. If they match, don't submit - OR FORWARD the new article. This way, duplicate articles will be stopped one site from where they begin, and if an error message was sent when this occurred, the source could be found. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.