Hi Jeff

 >  NP> If Dave Hatch goes down (808) then we ALL become disconnected and
 >  NP> would have to make alternative feeds. It's hard to decide to do this,
 >  NP> as a dropout may only be for a few days and then resume again.  If an
 >  NP> alternative feed is set up then there are heaps of dupes when the
 >  NP> broken link is reconnected.

 >  NP> It can be done, but lets hope Bave's now modified system keeps
 >  NP> living:-)

 > Wouldn't the seen-by lines take care of dupes? I thought that was
 > what they were for?

They can be used for dupe checking, but Paul obviosly wasn't sing them when
Christian pulled  his big boo boo.


 > If a message already has a seen-by for 711/934, it wouldn't get
 > tossed into a packet for TML. That was my understanding of it
 > anyway.

It was my understanding also, but it would appear that there are a LOT od
sysops who don't dupe check.

I had an old packet from the end of the drought turn up 2 weeks later, and
the PKT was ALL dupes!!!

Kind Regards
Niels Petersen

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