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 >>> My first problem is that FIDO-REQ is generating hundreds of dupes in
 >>> Aftershock and I have no idea why. Normally SBBSEcho handles dupes
 >>> perfectly, but not for that echo.

 >> What is FIDO-REQ? Regular echo? I need to subscribe to it for problem
 >> investigation. I do not see this echo in Areafix of Ward. Will ask him
 >> if it possible to make this echo available for me.

 AI> This is a bit complicated.

 AI> A node in Z1 is posting very big messages, over 400k. Those messages are
 AI> tossing OK here but when they pass through some nodes that don't support
 AI> messages over a certain size (64k, I think) they can get mangled. I see
 AI> two mangled messages without correct header info or MSGID. For every good
 AI> message I see here I see two mangled messages also. This issue will reveal
 AI> itself differently at different nodes with different tossers.

 AI> If I read the situation correctly that nodes "New file Announcement" keeps
 AI> growing every day because the already announced files are not being
 AI> cleared so they get announced again day after day. The message size grows
 AI> a little every day.

 AI> That node seems to be on auto pilot so that will keep on happening until
 AI> he gets in front of his keyboard again.

 AI> His packets are valid, just quite large and growing every day.


Thanks Alan. Yes, the dupes are from one particular node. I couldn't figure
out why they weren't being picked up as dupes, but this would make sense. 
Do you think it's something we should ask Digital Man to take a look at, or is
it too specific?

JD
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