Hi Stephen,

On 2016-01-27 21:08:55, you wrote to me:

 >> So thank god for good dupe checking... Hmm, if only sbbsecho would do
 >> that on  forwarded messages...

 SH> Is that a bug report or a feature request?

I would call it a design flaw. ;)

 SH> I haven't done much sbbsecho work except in response to bug reports,
 SH> but now is a good time to make sbbsecho feature requests.

 SH> In what way is the current sbbsecho misheaving?

Rob explained it to me as follows:

"The duplicate message checking occurs in the Synchronet Message Base (SMB)
library, which is not specific to FidoNet or any other networking technology.
So whether a message is imported via QWK, NNTP, SMTP, PostLink, FTN, or
whatever-future-networking-technology, it is subjected to the same database of
hashes to detect duplicates.

When an FTN message packet is processed by SBBSecho but the message is not
imported into a local message base (e.g. pass-through area or passing between
up/downlinks), the SMB library is thus not involved (the message would go
straight from one FTN packet to another FTN packet), never touching a
Synchronet message base."

So as I understand it the dupe checking only happens when messages are imported
into the message base. But by then the message is already tossed/send to all
connected links...

Bye, Wilfred.

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