Subj : Re: Qwk Posting Issue
To   : Digital Man
From : Khronos
Date : Sat Oct 17 2026 05:35 pm

-=> Digital Man wrote to Khronos <=-

 DM>   Re: Qwk Posting Issue
 DM>   By: Khronos to All on Sat Oct 17 2026 08:52 am

 > Hi,
 > Yesterday or the day before I was using my Multimail qwk client to reply to
 > a message in this area and a user on musicalnet stated that my message
 > appeared in their bases.
 > Musicalnet's mapping to 2017 is the same as this one in the qwk
 > configuration. I was replying from the qwk client instead of a telnet
 > connection to tthe bbs. It seems that when I reply from the qwk client it is
 > sending the message back to the 2017 qwk tag on the second net I added
 > instead of this one.
 > Has anyone seen this before?

 DM> The QWK conference numbers on your QWKnet *hub* (e.g. VERT for
 DM> DOVE-Net) are (normally) *different* than the QWK conference
 DM> numbers that your BBS exposes to your users (or any downstream
 DM> QWK nodes). Unless your system is itself a QWKnet hub, then your
 DM> sub-boards in SCFG->Message Areas should all be configured to use
 DM> "dynamic" QWK conference numbering and then such collisions as
 DM> you described (2017 being used for multiple QWK nets) won't be an
 DM> issue.

 DM> It sounds like you've confiugred some sub-boards to use static
 DM> QWK conference numbering and should not have. --

I rebuilt the message group from scratch and I believe I have fixed the 
issue.
The mappings on the other end for musicalnet have bases that start with 
2001 through 2030 that are in the same range as Dovenet.
This would be an issue on the remote board's site with the numbering 
logic.


 
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