Subj : Rougue bot
To   : Atreyu
From : Avon
Date : Fri Nov 12 2021 04:26 pm

On 08 Nov 2021 at 10:36p, Atreyu pondered and said...
 
 At> On 09 Nov 21  13:05:14, Apam said the following to Atreyu:
 At> 
 At> A> Yes, but what if Avon is away?
 At> 
 At> Easy... its a silly hobby, not an enterprise-grade commercial network.

Yep it's a hobby, I don't think it silly though. Time consuming yes, a bit
of a labour of love, sure... but then I get to meet all sorts of people
because of it. For the most part that's fun, sometimes it's not..

 At> The sun rises and sets no matter if he's busy listening to whatever Abba
 At> is  limping to the barn with or obsessing about dinner with Gillian
 At> Anderson.

Is this some lyrics from a bathroom hit you wrote? ..and how did you find out
about my dinner with Gillian?

 At> Its a tad hard to cut the feeds of Seen-by stripping nodes when they are
 At> in-between the Paths of systems that have peered/meshed with others.
 At> Even if  that system got its feed from here, what good is a feed cut
 At> when he's peered  with 2 or 3 other systems? And one of them runs that
 At> crap Fastecho tosser  where the Seen-by stripping is hardcoded?

sorry... lost me here are you talking about me running Fastecho?

 At> A> I certainly don't think it's an asinine suggestion.

Respectfully, I disagree. If something can be added in programmatic terms to
negate this kind of thing I can't see why it shouldn't be explored.

 At> I certainly do and I'm almost certain G00R00 feels the same, only he may
 At> be  a bit more "nicer" than I am. Whats the saying... clean up your own
 At> backyard  before commenting on your neighbours.

By 'nicer' I take it you mean the considered and measured reply he gave me in
the Fido MYSTIC echo that I just read?  I've only suggested something Nick. I'm
not going to loose sleep if in the end nothing comes of it but it appears
James is open to looking at it and that's all any request can hope to achieve.

You've lost me on the 'before commenting on your neighbours' reference.

 At> prevent this amongst the Sysops participating. Whats a Sysop with a Bot
 At> doing posting in FSX in the first place? Was it deliberate or an

There's this echo called FSX_BOT ... fsxnet.nz offers info about it and
it's intended usage, there's also info in the infopack. It's not a new echo and I see you're linked to it.

 At> If you don't want 8000 identical messages, then Avon as a ZC should
 At> personally make sure as many precautions are in place in his network to
 At> prevent this amongst the Sysops participating. Whats a Sysop with a Bot

Thanks for the free advice.

 At> No peering/meshing, nobody stripping Seen-bys, no buggy tossers, no
 At> buggy Bot programs, no circular paths, no rescans/dumps... do all this
 At> and you would have a very clean running network with guaranteed "zero"
 At> problems with dupes.

This sounds like winning the lotto. So we need all nodes and HUBs to play ball according to the above parameters and then all will be fine?

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