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|    Alan Ianson to Jeff Smith    |
|    Polling Loop?    |
|    12 Mar 19 12:31:24    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.0 62e4a9fd       REPLY: 1:282/1031.0 a6420d9c       TZUTC: -0800       CHARSET: LATIN-1       > Hello There,              >Here is something I have noticed that has happened occasionally for awhile now       >BBBS will get stuck in a continuous polling loop. It doesn't always involve th       >same remote system or even the same FTN. This round of polling continued unti       >I seen it happening and issued the command 'bbbs bom d 1:14/5'. Any thoughts o       > what might be causing this behavior? It's like BBBS doesn't detect that the       > connection was completed and tries again and again and again. Or Mystic isn't       > expressing that the connection was completed and so BBBS retries. This also       > happened on previous versions of BBBS.              I've seen this too, not continuous polling but I sometimes press |
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