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echo: fidonews
to: WARD DOSSCHE
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2020-06-04 06:36:00
subject: Re: Just got this ...

  Re: Re: Just got this ...
  By: Ward Dossche to Wilfred van Velzen on Thu Jun 04 2020 10:34:35


 Wv>> Seems more like some kind of rescan took place. I got to "massive"
 Wv>> dumps of older mail in the last couple of hours:

 WD> Just thinking of the known softwares having caused such events before.

 WD> Other than that, a rescan should only affect the system performing
 WD> the rescan, not everybody else...

that depends on the mail tosser... some simply toss all mail to all links no
matter if it were a rescan or not... this is one of the reasons why the
^aRESCAN control line was introduced but if a tosser doesn't know it, it cannot
restrict its tossing activities based on it...


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