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 Message 269 
 Nicholas Boel to mark lewis 
 Re: ALLFIX dupes? 
 14 Jun 15 13:44:34 
 
Hello mark,

On 14 Jun 15 11:24, mark lewis wrote to Tommi Koivula:

 TK>> So, if you go with defaults like me, hpt should not treat
 TK>> messages without MSGID as dupes.

 ml> ummm... what will it do if the from, to, and subject lines are the
 ml> same as seen in many robot postings?? ;) that's why i would also add
 ml> the time stamp to the formula at least... see my previous post in
 ml> allfix_help...

As long as the MSGID is different in each message, it would not be a dupe.
However, since newer versions of Allfix are not including a MSGID, they are
not being caught by Synchronet (since I disabled CRC checking, which leaves it
only to MSGID checking) and passing them on to my hpt node, which is catching
them as expected.

I think I figured out where the actual issue is over here, but at least we
were able to pinpoint a fault in the newer versions of Allfix as well. If
these messages did come out with a MSGID, I wouldn't be having this issue with
Synchronet.

 ml> i'm not seeing it here, either... on this system, i rescanned all
 ml> message areas from my main system so i have a full load up to three
 ml> years in most all areas except file announcement areas and a few other
 ml> highly repetative areas (eg: bbs ads)... it should also be noted that
 ml> there's two different distribution systems in play and it is possible
 ml> that nick is seeing dupes because he's actually getting dupes of those
 ml> messages...

I am. And Synchronet is not catching them due to the lack of a MSGID, so it's
sending both of the messages (original and duplicate) to my hpt system, where
they're being caught as they should be.

At least now I know the problem lies in a couple places, but where/how I can
at least fix it so that it doesn't happen here anymore. :)

Regards,
Nick

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