BL> I think *everyone* has to chop dupes! As far as I can see,
 BL> anything you send to Paul gets sent back the next day, so
 BL> anyone passing mail on, has to chop the dupes themselves. It's
 BL> pretty obvious that Paul isn't... the fault is with Paul.

 JG> Paul has fixed it on my end from the look of it. The only stuff
 JG> I've seen in the past two days have been from Paul himself and
 JG> Alan. They aren't dupes. All the other stuff I've sent to Paul
 JG> (about 150k) has not been returned. 

  I looks like UUPC does that when you set it up right. I was going to
add dupe-killing to my software but I've decided not to.

 BL> It would be alright is he was just downloading from one source
 BL> (the Internet) and passing it on (getting your own mail back is
 BL> only a minor annoyance) but he's getting mail from *several*
 BL> sources, each of which may be getting the same messages
 BL> somewhere else, and the whole thing loops horribly.

 JG> If you're still picking up fido echoes along with the uucp side
 JG> of things from Paul, you'll see it all twice. Is that what you
 JG> mean? 

  No... that is unavoidable. In fact, that's what we're trying to do!
I meant that anyone who picks up and sends must not send back what
they pick up (on eithe Fido or UUCP), as Paul was doing with all of
us.

 JG> When Paul goes entirely Linux, he wont be getting any fido
 JG> feeds. He'll be getting uucp feeds only. As long as everyone
 JG> else just sends him their own messages and doesn't start
 JG> *gating* entire fido echoes like me, there should be no dupes. 

  If you pick up a message on Fido and send it to Paul on UUCP, and
Paul sends it back to you on UUCP and you put it back on Fido, it
loops. Ideally, both of you should be killing the dupes, for both Fido
and UUCP, but the problem can be fixed in either place. Both of you
are picking up and sending back, and both of you can send the dupe
both ways.

Regards,
Bob
  
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