Subj : ET phone home
To   : Nick Andre
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Jan 07 2017 07:59 pm


 On 2017 Jan 07 17:53:08, you wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen:

 WV>> Some people are complaining now about an excess of dupes. What's
 WV>> wrong with catching a few extra? You said the code is already there,
 WV>> so it would be ea for you to enable it!

 NA> The people complaining are those seeing effects of this "modern" BBS
 NA> software you speak of... Mystic, Synchronet, HPT etc. All three,
 NA> whether buggy or just improperly configured, have caused these
 NA> problems you want me to change code in D'Bridge to handle... code not
 NA> touched in decades. :)

actually it is the effects of multiple distribution paths from the origin to 
the receiver... something in the path also causes changes in some messages 
which lead to various methods of CRC dupe detection to be broken... that's what 
allows the dupes to further spread... the sad part is that folks operating 
those systems feeding others that have been told about the problem continue to 
run the software instead of backing up to a previous (possibly non-alpha) 
version that doesn't have the problem... instead the problem is allowed to 
build and expand while everyone hopes the author will return and fix the 
bugs... hopefully he will, he does good work...

i just can't see how this was allowed to get out and into use for this long... 
someone's doing something very wrong... that's for sure... it isn't you or rob, 
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...
.... Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.
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