On Dec 15, 2016 11:40am, Nicholas Boel wrote to Allen Prunty:

 NB> Ah, yes. This is why I've always tried to get people to use the
 NB> "fidopoll send" command, rather than "fidopoll forced". When using
 NB> "forced", Mystic's mailer will poll every single link that was enabled,
 NB> and always seemed to cause problems (with me being the other end,
 NB> anyways). Using "send" would only connect to the links you actually had
 NB> mail waiting to send to. Usually switching to the "send" method fixed
 NB> whatever issues myself and said link were having.

Smells like the routine for FORCED has a different procedure than the routine
for send... and Forced has a bug.  I do like to poll my main hubs at least
once or twice a day though.

 NB> At that point they're only collecting AKAs. I guarantee you they do not
 NB> spend much of any time actually participating in any or all of those
 NB> networks. I have seen this a few times in the past as well, and have
 NB> chosen not to link with a couple certain individuals because of it.

I do tend to partaicipate in a few echos in the nets I participate with.

Different nets often have different personalities :-)

Allen
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