G'day Bob,

Replying to a message of Bob Lawrence to Jeff Green on 24/05/97:

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

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

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

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

 BL> This is what I've been saying all along. Paul is the hub, so *he*
 BL> should be the gateway. The only other alternative is for *both* you
 BL> and Paul to kill dupes,

Paul's killing them now. I'm going to keep my eye on it for a little while
just to be certain though. Call me Fox Mulder if you will, but I trust
no-one :-)

 BL> and if more than one of us starts to feed both Fido and UUCP, then we have 
 BL> ot kill dupes too.

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

Regards...Jeff (jeff{at}matra.com.au)

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