Subj : Re: Syste misconfiguration
To   : deon
From : Accession
Date : Sat Jul 26 2025 08:57:10

Hey deon!

On Fri, Jul 25 2025 17:56:25 -0500, you wrote:

 > Actually, I've noticed HPT does it a lot, so I dont think it 
 > validates that?

That's possible. I guess I just don't see something like this happen often enough. This specific message just stood out a bit more since it was clearly from Micronet, and I don't believe Sean is even a member of FSXnet. So how it got here was puzzling, to say the least.

 > I normally hear about it because clrghouz does reject invalid zones 
 > (for a domain), and netmails the sender (often another hub) of the 
 > invalid message.

Clrghaus may be one of the only tossers that rejects messages like that. I think the original idea was to allow anything that isn't a duplicate message to go through, so that ...

 > The bad part is other nodes on other hubs get the message anyway and 
 > reply to it - then I get a bunch of "I didnt get that message" 
 > messages to me from my nodes... :(

... none of this ever happens. Then you also get the anti-censorship people that flail their arms around about free speech and all that (which can be understood in a non-crazy person kinda way, I guess), etc.

However, then you're more subject to people dumping a bunch of old messages back into a network if one's dupe detection isn't setup right. Here, I believe messages older than 14 days are rejected, and dupe detection goes back 365 days. So, if the messages that are dumped are older than a year it can still happen, or if the MSGID or message body was altered/changed in any way (sometimes RESCANS alter message body text, even though they shouldn't).

While there were standards in place all these years, a lot of developers interpreted those standards in their own way. So, it seems every tosser acts a bit different in different scenarios. So nothing is perfect. /shrug/

Regards,
Nick

.... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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