-=> On 05-21-11  00:38,  Marc Blakely <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Dupes. <=-

 DS> Or possibly your uplink -- 1:138/392 which is Home of InternetKing,
 DS> Nathan Prugh.

 MB> Reverse that. 138/392 is a downlink of mine. My primary uplink is
 MB> 140/1. 
 MB> 138/392 should be an endnode. Unfortunately he had to put 
 MB> his system back together and in the process connected to 
 MB> two uplinks for mail, mine and Ross's.

 MB> He initiated a rescan of echos from me, and then scanned them out to
 MB> Ross.  The one's he scanned out were dupes, of course.

That would explain how and why.  The messages went from you to him to
Ross then to me.

 MB> Because of the age and quantity, I would imagine most of 
 MB> the message hashes used for dupe checking fell off of most 
 MB> systems a while ago.

Surprisingly enough, my Maximus/Squish system trapped about 600+ of them
as dupes.  Another 6000+ came on through though.

 MB> What messages got through, were probably ones which didn't 
 MB> have 123/500 in the seen by's when they came in here 
 MB> originally.

No way of telling here since they came from 123/500 to me.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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