Re: Re: FidoNews 33:04 [01/05]: List Of Fidonet Ipv6 Nodes
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to Bill McGarrity on Fri Jan 29 2016 10:54 am

 > 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?

Yes.

 >  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? ;)

SBBSecho doesn't currently reject messages with an authorship date older than a
certain period of time, if that's what you're asking.

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