G'day Peter

 CH>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but by rights, if a dupe ring does 
 CH>> occur, wouldn't it be the fault of the other importer.

 PD> Faults don't worry me.  It's the dupe ring itself.  As I have said
 PD> before we (Amiga users) have to keep our house in order, because IBM
 PD> sysops providing links can easily find a solution to a dupe ring by
 PD> cutting links.  (Hmmmmmmm).

Point taken.

The following was taken from the local ECHOCOST echo......

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 Date: 07 Oct 96  13:36:02
 From: Andrew Gulovsen
 To:   All
 Subj: [4 of 4] echo stats

 SQSTAT (1.0b.a252) Report generated  1996/10/07 - 13:36:02
 Copyright (C) 1992 by Graham J Stair, All rights reserved.

 Covering the period 1996/09/22 (16:07) to 1996/10/07 (13:00)
        ...which is 14.9 days or 2.12 weeks...

                   A R E A   R E P O R T

    Msgs     Msgs      %           Max    Min    Msgs
      In     /Day   Traf  Dupes   /Day   /Day     Out  Area Name
 ======= ======== ====== ====== ====== ====== =======  ==============

       6      0.4   0.0%      0      2      0      24  TRAPDOOR

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Seems that mail in Trapdoor down south here is flowing, albeit slowly, but
maybe not actually leaving the country.

My hub doesn't carry it, so I have no first hand info.

 PD> Nah, strictly speaking it IS correct.  I'm still importing it.  It's
 PD> just only going to 711/439 and net 622 from below here.  Alwyn Smiths
 PD> gate for it must be getting on to Net 640.  That leaves anyone else
 PD> without a feed for TRAPDOOR at all :-(

 Cache Ya,                      chutch{at}nwamiga.apana.org.au
 Craig.

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