Hello Paul

 > Christian, you sent me 181 messages, most to go to AUST_TRADING,

My sincere apologies. I was not aware that this was happening.

I have just checked the settings in FMail (the tosser) and found that the
settings for AUST_TRADING are identical to the settings for LOCUSER. These
two echos are passed on to Teddy and should therefore have the same
settings.

Is AUST_TRADING the only echo that you are receiving duplicate messages in?

> and most out of spec.

Could you please advise in what manner the messages were out of spec??
Maybe a sample would assist in this regard.

 > They would have gone to Dave if I hadn't spotted them.

Thank you for your action in preventing a problem to other nodes.


 > I was tossing up whether to password-protect my session
 > so you couldn't do it again, and send you netmail, to
 > let me know when you had your end fixed up.

I was under the impression that my sessions with you were password protected.
In what way would a password protect stop the sending of duplicate
messages


 > But I'm going
 > to risk it for one more session, hoping that I can catch it.
 > I expect you to do the right thing after the next session.

I wish to *always* do the right thing, but I am unaware of the cause of the
problem, as I have not changed anything in relation to AUST_TRADING since I
first started receiving it from you.


> And then what do you plan to do so that this won't happen
 > again?

I am at a loss to explain *why * it has started happening, but with the
echo disconnected I cannot trace any faults.

Could you please reconnect the echo, and I will do the following.....

1. Disconnect Denise from the feed (this will remove one possible cause)

2. Manually inspect all outgoing packets from my system to you, to ensure
   that they only contain AUST_TRADING messages that have been entered   
onto my system

   This should prove whether my system is the cause or not.

If the duplicate problem is not evident then ....

3. After a number of days with no problems, I can reconnect Denise and   
then manually inspect all outgoing packets for AUST_TRADING messages   
that do not originate from Denises system.

   This would prove that the errors were occuring somewhere down stream of 
  myself, and I could advise Denise of the problem and disconnect the   
feed to her until the problem can be located.


Is the above plan acceptable to you ???

Apart from the above, can you advise me of any other measures I can take,
in an endeavour to locate the cause of the problem.?
Any advise would be welcome.


>  I don't run a secure system here.  BFN.  Paul.

An explanation of a secure system would be appreciated, as I do not
understand the term. Any explanation can only add to mylimited knowledge of
mailing systems


My sincerest apologies for creating a problem.

Christian Paulings

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