On 2018 Sep 12 09:10:32, you wrote to me:

 ml>> the concept is pretty simple... gather the PATH and SEEN-BYs of each
 ml>> message and build a sorted database of them...

 WV> What do you do with the seenby's?

maybe they aren't needed? i wrote my previous responses without looking at the 
actual code... if you don't need then for your version, don't gather them ;)

 ml>> ==== Begin "FN_SYSOP.txt"  ====

 ml>> This report covers 137 unique pathlines in area FN_SYSOP
 ml>> as seen from 3634/12.

 ml>> 3634/12ÄÂ123/500ÄÄ203/0ÄÄ203/2
 ml>>         Ã153/7715ÄÄ153/757
 ml>>         Ã154/10ÄÂ154/30
 ml>>         ³       Ã203/0ÄÂ201/0ÄÂ201/111ÄÄ20/228

 WV> You have to really study this, to make any sense of it in the current
 WV> fidoweb'd fidonet! ;)

yes, maybe a tree format is not the best format for the display any more? 
perhaps something more like the TradeWars 2000 universe map would be better?

 WV> Systems are mentioned in many different places in the tree...

yes, that's how we used to detect dupe loops and get them undone...

)\/(ark

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