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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Posting loop someplace?
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>Is it just me, or are other folks noticing that some postings often get
>repeated a 2-3 weeks after initial posting?  Have we got some errant
>site feeding old articles back into the group again?

Can you find a pair to see if they're *exactly* the same - in
particular, same article id and date?

In theory, you should reject all articles older than the time you keep
records in your history file (unfortunately, that often means rejecting
good articles or having a *very* large history).

-- Richard

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