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echo: fidonews
to: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
from: BILL MCGARRITY
date: 2015-04-21 09:35:00
subject: Re: Dupes...

-=> On 04-21-15 14:16, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

Hiya Wilfred...

 WvV> On 2015-04-21 00:58:00, you wrote to All:

 >> Quick question regardig sbbsecho and dupe checking.  Does it check for
 >> X-FTN-MSGID automatically without turning on the dupe check in SCFG?

 DM>> Yes, duplicate message-IDs are always checked, even if duplicate
 DM>> message body text checking is disabled (the only exception is the "bad
 DM>> echo" area where duplicate message-IDs are allowed).

 BM> Great!! That's what I needed to know so I can turn off CRC checking.

 BM> Much appreciated...

 BM> --

 BM> CRC checking is now disabled but MSG-ID is still being checked.

 WvV> It doesn't matter, because SBBSecho's dupe checking is flawed anyway.
 WvV> It only checks for dupes when it imports messages into the message
 WvV> base. Arriving echomail is never checked by SBBSecho before it forwards
 WvV> it to its links.

 WvV> That's why you get Path lines like this (from my dupe area):

 WvV>   @PATH: 249/303 203/0 320/119 123/500 261/38 249/303

 WvV> When for instance Joe writes a message on his synchronet system, and on
 WvV> the way a system strips the seen-by's. So when it arrives at Joe's
 WvV> system again (with the same MSG-ID), Joe's SBBSecho happily forwards it
 WvV> again (without dupe checking) to its links for the second time...

I will bring this up with Rob.... 

Thanks..


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