Subj : Re: ET phone home
To   : Wilfred Van Velzen
From : Nick Andre
Date : Fri Jan 06 2017 06:07 pm

On 06 Jan 17  22:15:28, Wilfred Van Velzen said the following to Nick Andre:

WV>  NA> Its amusing to me to see all of these problems with duplicates, when
WV>  NA> the duplicate-checking code in D'Bridge has not been changed since the
WV>  NA> early 90's.
WV> 
WV> Well it could use an update for the modern fidonet, to also check the syste
WV> in the path line, when it does seen-by checking... Because paths like these

There WAS some work done with the PATH in the duplicate-check code, but was
commented-out by the original author, most likely because at that time, he
wasn't quite sure what to make out of FSC-0052 or parts of FTS-0004.001, 
and/or he undoubtably was aware that a large Zone 2 hub used D'Bridge
exclusively (Ward), along with major Net hubs in Zone 1.

In the time I've been in Fidonet, since early 1994, I have yet to see ANY 
system running D'Bridge that has caused massive duplicate-message problems, 
that were NOT the result of Sysop-error or back end BBS software-error.

The original author supported D'Bridge well into 2000, 2001 I believe... 
plenty of time for the Zone 1 NAB troika and super-logical-Spock beings in
Zone 2 to make noise about any duplicate-problems caused by a D'Bridge system.

No complaints, no nitpicking... no noise... not even ranting from Mark Lewis.

It is a misconception that code that has worked for decades needs to be 
updated to support some new "modern" Fido technology... most likely the new 
"modern" being new tossers or new BBS software that cause these problems.

Nick

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