[NNTP] Article references

[Andrew - Supernews]

>>>>> "Clive" == Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

 Clive> Article <abc at xyz> arrives. The server makes it article 123 in
 Clive> alt.test.  What stops the server *also* making it 124 in
 Clive> alt.test?

Some servers are known to do exactly that if the article has
 Newsgroups: alt.test,alt.test

But the guy in n.s.nntp probably wasn't seeing that, it is more
likely that he was using a server with a very short history file,
and therefore duplicate articles were being accepted that way.

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