Subj : Double postings
To   : Alan Ianson
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Sep 17 2019 09:12 am


 On 2019 Sep 15 11:45:16, you wrote to me:

 >> this is good but for one small thing... there is a package that is known
 >> to be reformatting messages in transit which is going to throw the message
 >> body CRC out the door... there is no estimate on when this but will be
 >> fixed as the developer is apparently quite busy with RL outside of FTNs...

 AI> I've seen this happen here with BBBS. Twice in the last month or so I
 AI> noticed I had two copies of a message in the message base and BBBS would
 AI> have sent them on to my links. The message didn't have a MSGID so it was
 AI> tossed into the message base and on to links. It arrived a second time and
 AI> had been changed in transit so it was not detected as a dupe and was 
tossed
 AI> into the msgbase again and sent on to links.

yup! that's exactly how it has been happening in recent times...

)\/(ark

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set 
them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
.... Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
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