Subj : Don't want to screw up!
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jan 03 2005 03:38 pm

  Re: Don't want to screw up!
  By: Angus Mcleod to Digital Man on Mon Jan 03 2005 01:03 pm

 >  > Another consideration (as a feature for future versions) is a limit on th
 >  > "age" of imported messages from network nodes. This should also help elim
 >  > dupes.
 > 
 > I can't think how to do this with BAJA.  Or JS for that matter.  That
 > would have to be done by the code that packs the messages, surely?  Unless
 > you post-process with a script to read through the packet and squawk if it
 > found any messages with dates out of range?

The check would be done in the unpacking routines for QWK and Fidonet packets
(in qwktomsg.cpp and sbbsecho.c) or as a possibly lower (SMB) level feature.

                                                  digital man

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