Hello Rob,

On Sat Nov 04 2017 12:53:32, Rob Swindell wrote to mark lewis:

 >> yeah, IIRC, it is mike miller's war ensemble bbs... whatever is
 >> going on, it seems to maybe be related to new features in
 >> sbbsecho...

 RS> How so?

It may not be the program itself, but the dupe bombs began happening the
day he upgraded to the latest sbbsecho sources (Oct 31 I believe). While I
can't blame sbbsecho since it doesn't actually post those messages, smbutil
does.. So there are a couple options:

1) Whatever utility (I assume smbutil) he's using to post his file reports
to Fidonet wasn't setup correctly (ie: wrong command line options), or
those file reports were never deleted when they were originally sent, and
after the upgrade, it started resending them all out over again..

2) Something in his configuration is wrong, seeing as though these posts
have gone out to multiple echos across the network, via 2 different links.

What happens with smbutil when you don't specify an areatag to post in?
MYSTIC, FMAIL_HELP, some German echo, and a few others have all been
flooded with these reports, so maybe they were rescanned out by sbbsecho
after he upgraded? I'm clueless as to what actually happened, and am only
taking wild guesses here, but I had to pause his feed from here until it's
figured out and fixed.

Regards,
Nick

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