Subj : Squish dupe detection. To : Mike Tripp From : Marc Lewis Date : Wed Nov 20 2002 08:29 pm Hello Mike. ML> coming from mailing lists gated into echo format. Sometimes a whole ML> group of messages arrives at once and all end up with the same MSGID. MT> That's broken. I agree, and short of using GSAR to alter the lines in squish.cfg before those messages get tossed, there's not a whole lot I can do w/o manual intervention. ML> Needless to say, Squish traps all but the first one. It doesn't ML> seem to make _any_ difference enabling the 'DupeLongHeader' with ML> 'DupeCheck Header MSGID' - it seems to ignore the header info. MT> If you enable both tests, the message must pass both tests. I also have a problem with that. I post messages to the Vatican and the Intelec IN_Catholic echos with a batch file (using MsgPost/TE) that waits 8 seconds between each post, guaranteeing a distinct MSGID for every message. At this end (at my point) I have ONLY MSGID enabled in the squish.cfg. It tosses the Vatican messages and traps the identical messages (with different MSGID's) that should post to the IN_Catholic echo. (Which is in a different Zone as well.) _That_ is broken. In addition to the different MSGID's, the messages have the same text in the Subj: area, but spaced and punctuated differently in 4 variations, just to break things up. That makes no difference either. ML> performance; or perhaps some sort of workaround like an external ML> dupe detector? MT> It is the messages that are broken...not the tosser. If you want a MT> hack, hack the messages into compliance, so that Squish will pass MT> them. I will differ with you on this in this particular scenario, Mike. I sincerely believe there *is* a logic defect in Squish's dupe detection routines. Hopefully someone will find it and correct it some day. Best regards, Marc --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+ * Origin: Sursum Corda! BBS SysOp Point (1:396/45.1) .