Subj : Re: Dupes?
To   : Jay Harris
From : deon
Date : Wed Oct 13 2021 11:12:38

  Re: Re: Dupes?
  By: Jay Harris to g00r00 on Mon Oct 11 2021 08:20 pm

 > Here are two more than came through today.  I've turned off my feeds to
 > 2:221/6 & 3:770/1 for now and am just hooked up to 1:229/426:
 > https://paste.ee/p/hBhCR
 > https://paste.ee/p/nN9aV
 > Again, the kludges look the same (except for the path and seen-by lines) but the message body has again been modified.  One message has a SLMR line where the other one doesn't.

Howdy,

For me it looks like three things:

* Your BBS didnt consider it a dupe

* 229/426 didnt consider it a dupe - since it sent it to you twice.

* Somebody after 261/38 modified the message - possibly 301/1, 320/219 or 240/5832, since it looks like 261/38 sent it 2 ways, that end up at 229/426. So either 301/1 removed the bottom 2 lines, or one of 320/219, 240/5832 added them.

This could go 2 ways, depending if the authors of the software involved think they are doing the "right thing" or not.

1) A consistent method to identify a duplicate - which there is an FTS document that can help here,
2) "Thou should not modify message content" - dont recall if that is an FTS document somewhere

Fortunately for you, there is some software that handles this situation well, so even if something upsream is not doing what is expected you can mitigate it yourself.

Getting popcorn...


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