Subj : DUPES! To : Roger Nelson From : mark lewis Date : Fri Oct 28 2016 15:14:40 28 Oct 16 11:30, you wrote to me: ml>> in most cases, the system ""above"" you that sends the dupes to you ml>> should catch them... it may not be able to do so if its dupe database ml>> gets flushed of dupe data real quickly because of the amount of ml>> traffic it handles... that's if that system even has dupe detection ml>> enabled... they may not have it enabled if they elect to send all ml>> mail on to their connections and let them determine if it is a dupe ml>> or not... they may decide to do that so as to avoid false positives ml>> being stopped and not propogating... RN> But that system's dupe detector worked well for years and years until RN> lately. No, I believe the problem lies in a misconfiguration somewhere RN> eles. ok... i see what you are saying now... it is no misconfiguration, though... it is a change in the landscape... previously there were fewer dupes to deal with... they were part of a system that had only two others in the fully connected polygon... today, there are many more systems in numerous polygons, fully connected and not so fully connected... today's game is about redundancy and there is no cost to transport dupes like there was in the old POTS dialup days of yor... with more dupes flying around, old school slash old style dupe databases can get overrun pretty quickly... this is especially true in older 16 and 32 bit code... 16bit moreso, of course... there is a limit to the sheer number of values they can store and there is also a filesize limitation... the filesize limitation used to be OS dependant but older software on new OSes will find their index counters to be the limitation on file sizes... we're not even touching on some of the new ""slightly"" buggy software that is available today, either... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... On Nytol: Warning: may cause drowsiness. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .