G'day Paul,

Replying to a message of Paul Edwards to Jeff Green on 22-05-96:

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

 PE> Say echomail normally goes 711/934 - 711/808 - 711/555 - 711/444. Now
 PE> 711/808 is down for some time, so I start sending mail to 711/444
 PE> myself.  I presume you still want 711/808 to get a copy, for when he
 PE> comes up again, so I will still be exporting it to him.  Now 711/808
 PE> comes up again, and gets all my messages.  He can see that 711/555
 PE> has not seen them yet, so he sends them on, and 711/444 gets dupes,

Ok, I can see that now that it's been pointed out.

 PE> and there is a good chance that he will send the dupes on to his
 PE> downstream, 711/333.  

Would that be because the mail tosser couldn't detect that they were dupes
because they came from different packets ie one from you and one from
711/555?

Hmmm...interesting. I hadn't really thought about it before.

Regards...Jeff (jeff{at}grntrs.dialix.oz.au)

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