**>> fully connected polygons (system A sends to B & C, B sends to A&C,
**>> C sends to A&B), you need SEEN-BYs to prevent sending out dupes.
**>> (Look at FSC-0068 for more about this)

> note the first three words of the original quote... "fully connected
> polygon" ... C gets the messages from both A and B...

DJ> Why would C want to have two links for the same areas? I never
DJ> understood that.

why does any real good network server have large drives mirrored
together? its called redundant fault tolerance... some of us actually
care about the messages we may not have seen :)

> it is expected that there will be dupes and there should be... the use
> of the seen-by lines keeps them from being sent, though...

DJ> like I said, imvho this the wrong approach...

tell that to the Zone 1 backbone systems... it is how they are connected
and pass mail between themselves... one benefit that comes to mind is
faster distribution in some cases...

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