Hi Bill,

On 2016-01-28 11:12:00, you wrote to me:

 BM>> That issue has long been resolved.  Rob added a noForwardCircular
 BM>> where it looks at the seen-bys and if it's in there, it doesn't get
 BM>> passed on. You can ask both Janis and Bj%rn if indeed this works.

 WvV>> That's not real dupe checking! Seen-by's and even path lines are
 WvV>> sometimes removed (I've seen it happen!).

 BM> Then sbbsecho resorts back to CRC checking and MSGID.

Does it do that before messages are tossed to the links?

 BM> I can set the number to as large as I want to. Example, I have my
 BM> system set for 10,000 messages for each echo. Could my system possibly
 BM> pass dupes, sure, if someone dumps messages from 3-4 years ago but how
 BM> is that sbbsecho's fault.

Doesn't sbbsecho have an old message detection? ;)

 BM> Plus, with the fidoweb, dupes are expected.... so where does the
 BM> actual problem lie?

We already have plenty of dupes, so if we could prevent some unnecessary dupes,
that would be nice.

Bye, Wilfred.

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