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echo: dbridge
to: mark lewis
from: Rob Swindell
date: 2018-06-19 22:43:24
subject: Dupeloops

Re: Dupeloops
  By: mark lewis to Rob Swindell on Tue Jun 19 2018 07:10 pm

 > AFAIK, seenbys and paths are not included in most dupe detection schemes...
 > other non-changing control lines are fine to be included... one of the
 > problems
 > comes when some system sort those control lines on messages they are passing
 > along... we don't see so much of that like we did at one time ;)

So some metadata is included in the data that is hashed for dupe detection and
some is not? Are you sure about that? Anyway, duplicate Message-IDs *should* be
caught be any FTN software written or updated in the past 20 years.

                                            digital man

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