Re: New Files At War Ensemble BBS
  By: Nicholas Boel to Rob Swindell on Mon Nov 06 2017 05:52 pm

 > Hello Rob,
 >
 > On Mon Nov 06 2017 12:40:38, Rob Swindell wrote to Nicholas Boel:
 >
 >  >> That said, I'm not blaming your software.. but I originally pointed
 >  >> out that these dupes started the day he upgraded to the Oct 31
 >  >> sources.
 >
 >  RS> The spam/dupes I see in this echo appeared on Oct-3. In some other
 >  RS> echoes, they appeared later (e.g. Oct-13), but not Oct-31. 
 >
 > Take another look at the timestamps of said "file report" messages that came
 > from War Ensemble BBS. They were dated from Oct. 1 up until Nov 4th I
 > believe.

Yes, I see that now:
when_written     59D09271 412C Sun Oct 01 2017 12:00 am EST
when_imported    59F92032 C1E0 Tue Oct 31 2017 06:15 pm PDT

 > They were not marked as dupes because they were never (and should
 > not have ever
 > been) posted here in the first place.
 >
 > That said, the last I heard from him was it was a little more than a
 > configuration issue, so you may have some config files coming your way.

Yup, it was an SBBSecho bug introduced on Oct-27, unrelated to any new feature
usage (now fixed). Apparently DaiTengu runs SBBSecho in a manner that is
uncommon (handles both importing and exporting with every invocation) and the
problem only occurred in that scenario. So no one else has encountered this
issue, thankfully.

                                            digital man

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