Niels, at 21:18 on May 15 1997, you wrote to David Drummond ...

NP> If you have read my previous mail regarding dupes. the bad 
NP> news is that I turned Dupe checking ON and FMail didn't pick 
NP> up the dupes from Teddy and forwarded the whole lot on to 
NP> you and John.

NP> I opened the Zip and deleted the packet of messages from 
NP> teddy (after checking that there was no mail from her 
NP> personally ) so you will not get another load of Dupes.

NP> What I can't figure out is why it didn't detect ALL the 
NP> messages as dupes. I actually checked the MSG ID's and they 
NP> were identical to messages already in the message base.  The 
NP> ones from Teddy must be altered in some way that defeats 
NP> FMAIL's dupe checking mechanism.

NP> I.E It detects Dupes if I toss YOUR pkts twice
NP> It won't detect the same messages as dupes after they come 
NP> back from Teddy.

NP> SO........

NP> Seeing you had this problem between you and Bill G, what did 
NP> you do in your setup to stop your system sending the 
NP> messages from Bill back to BIll.
NP> I know the software is different, but your answer may give 
NP> me a clue as to what it is that needs changing on TEDDY's 
NP> system to stop it sending her inbound mail from being sent 
NP> staraight back to me.

NP> I will be studying the Docs in the meantime.

We instituted a "fakenet" number and I sent all outbound stuff to
it instead.  I had this "fakenet" node routed to Bill's point
number.

I have a feeling that inbound stuff bounced back to him, but was killed by
his dupechecker.

I had a similar problem when you started feeding me.  All inbound from you
was immediately repacked as outbound to you.

I have resolved this by NOT forwarding the echoes to your point number at
all. I toss them to John T's node number.  I have any outbound for John T
routed via your point number.

Inbound mail from you already has John's node in the seenby so it doesn't
get re-tossed straight back at you.

NP> If I can't get her end fixed, then I may have to setup 
NP> Christians system to NOT forward from the FMail Toss and 
NP> make WildMail forward Locuser & Sysop when the mail get 
NP> tossed into his WildCat message base

NP> Even then I may still have the same trouble if the Wildcat 
NP> Dupe detection system gets fooled by the difference in the 
NP> existing messages and the returned messages. (whatever it 
NP> is)

NP> I have learnt that Christians system ADDs the Node part of 
NP> his point address to the seenby line. This is why I can't 
NP> use the SEENBY's as then it won't forward anything :-(

NP> While I was on his sytem I used his editor. It is real shit 
NP> after being used to this one.!

NP> After the DOCS comes the FMAIL echo.

NP> The other solution would be to make Christian a node ?? :-)

You mean getting him nodelisted?  Pretty scary stuff.....

Another option is that I set up a direct link from here to John's system
and feed the LOCwhatever echos direct to him, (though I don't think that
will help Teddy at all - the problem is in her setup I think).

David
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