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 Message 1476 
 Bill McGarrity to Digital Man 
 Re: Dupe checks 
 05 Nov 16 12:36:00 
 
-=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: Dupe checks
 DM>   By: Bill McGarrity to Joe Delahaye on Fri Nov 04 2016 08:13 am

 > -=> Joe Delahaye wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
 >
 >  JD>   Re: Re: Dupe checks
 >  JD>   By: Bill McGarrity to Joe Delahaye on Thu Nov 03 2016 18:50:00
 >
 >  BM>> I think if you have CheckPathForDupes toggled to TRUE, it will. Not
 >  BM>> sure CRCs are checked though.
 >
 >
 >  JD>> That would be in the .ini file?  I dont recall seeing that anywhere
 >  JD>> in the setup program
 >
 >  BM> You can access that from echocfg under Echomail Settings and toggle
 >  BM> Circular Path to Enabled.
 >
 >  JD> I have that enabled almost since day one   Apparently Pass Thru is
 >  JD> not checked for dupes, since there is no data base.  This from DM.
 >
 > OK... I stand corrected.  I thought all msg's saw the circular path and
 > compared it IF that message was already within your system.  Oh well.  Maybe
 > some future implimentation for DM.

 DM> Circular path detection and dupe detection are different things. That
 DM> said, sbbsecho does *not* currently check for circular paths on
 DM> pass-through areas. sbbsecho.c does contain this TODO comment however:
 DM> /* TODO: Should circular path detection occur before processing
 DM> pass-through areas? */

 DM> :-)

Thank you sir.... as always, you're right on top of things... :)

Be well..


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