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Aucbvax.5676 fa.digest-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!digest-people Thu Dec 31 12:32:16 1981

>From p-btempl@CCA-UNIX Thu Dec 31 12:16:50 1981 To: ARPAVAX:CSVAX:digest-people at Berkeley Subject: Repeats in Digests Cc: Admin.MDP at SU-Score, CSD.JPM at SU-Score, cbosgd!mark at Berkeley, glickman at Berkeley

Many of you will be aware of the recent accidental repeats that occured in the SFL digest, with one issue going out 4 or 5 times. For some people this is only an annoyance, but it can be really bad for those on the usenet. I know of some usenet sites that pick up their news over 300 baud lines with manual dialing and long distance! They certainly don't want a slip-up to cause a multiple sending. That one address at Berkeley in your mailing list actually, for most digests, probably represents a large bulk of your readers. It might make some sense, especially if software is being debugged, to handle it in a special way. Perhaps in all mailings the mailing to that address should be seperate from the mailing to the ARPA readers - that way if the problem is discovered early, it will not affect all the USENET readers, but only a few individuals. Jim said that his SFL problems were solved, but that duplicates will crop up from time to time. Perhaps the least that might be done is to put the Berkeley forwarding address last on the list, and to arrange some acknowledgment from it?

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