Site "ndmce" is duplicating articles by mashing message-ids

[John Gilmore]

The site "ndmce" is screwing up news by replacing messages' original
message-id's with its own message-id's. This causes the messages to
be sent twice to each system in the Usenet, since the message-id is
used to tell whether a message has been received already. My news log
files show 66 such messages in the last two weeks. Here is an
example. This is the header of the original message:

Path: hoptoad!ptsfa!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!ece-csc!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!barnettb
From: barn...@vdsvax.uucp (Barnett Bruce G)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Seeking a Development Environment (Sun?)
Message-ID: <9...@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 86 16:55:19 GMT
References: <42...@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Sender: ro...@steinmetz.UUCP
Reply-To: barn...@steinmetz.UUCP (Barnett Bruce G)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 206
Summary: Apollo 0, Sun 1

In article <42...@brl-smoke.ARPA> giebe...@umn-cs.arpa writes:
>My experience is that Apollo is much better for professional software
>development and Sun is better for hacking.
...

Here is the second copy which was created by ndmce:

Path: hoptoad!ptsfa!qantel!ihnp4!cbatt!clyde!cuae2!ltuxa!we53!sw013b!dj3b1!killer!ndmce!pollux!infotel!ut-ngp!ut-sally!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!ece-csc!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!barnettb
From: barn...@vdsvax.uucp@ndmce.uucp (Barnett Bruce G)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Seeking a Development Environment (Sun?)
Message-ID: <2...@ndmce.uucp>
Date: 17 Oct 86 20:59:10 GMT
References: <42...@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Sender: ne...@ndmce.uucp
Reply-To: barn...@steinmetz.UUCP (Barnett Bruce G)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 206
Summary: Apollo 0, Sun 1

In article <42...@brl-smoke.ARPA> giebe...@umn-cs.arpa writes:
>My experience is that Apollo is much better for professional software
>development and Sun is better for hacking.
...

I SUGGEST TAKING NDMCE OFF THE NET UNTIL THEY FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM.

From their map entry, they are running notes 1.7. I have seen this
problem occur before, but I don't know what causes it. Has anybody
fixed this before? If so, call Terry Poot at ndmce: +1 214 739 4741.
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John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgil...@lll-crg.arpa
(C) Copyright 1986 by John Gilmore. May the Source be with you!