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|    mark lewis to Alexey Fayans    |
|    binkd connecting to own AKA    |
|    13 Jan 20 18:07:33    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 488.fido-binkd@1:3634/12 2282301d       REPLY: 2:5030/1997@fidonet 5e1cb40a       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Jan 9 2020 GCC 7.4.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.149 Jan 9 2020 GCC 7.4.0       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.103        Re: binkd connecting to own AKA        By: Alexey Fayans to mark lewis on Mon Jan 13 2020 20:59:59                      AF> This is indeed a routing problem and should be fixed instead of trying to        AF> stop binkd from doing its work.              i'm not trying to stop binkd from doing its work... i'm trying to prevent it       from doing useless busy work that may be caused by something else... there is       never a need for a mailer to call itself and deliver files from its outbound       right back into its inbound and keep looping endlessly like that until someone       notices a problem...              in my case, i noticed it when i saw a netmail with several dozen VIA lines all       from my own system... that was when i realized it wasn't a loop between my       system and another like i have had to deal with in the past... that's also       probably why i have a routing statement in place to route my net's mail back       to my system... it stopped that looping problem and now we have this one that       i'm trying to understand and fix... frontdoor never called itself unless there       was some specific settings in place... settings that would never have been       done accidentally...                     )\/(ark       --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 14/6 18/0 90/1 103/705 116/116 123/0 25 50 115       SEEN-BY: 123/150 170 755 135/300 153/7715 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 242       SEEN-BY: 221/360 6000 227/114 229/101 200 426 1014 230/0 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/307 317 261/38 280/464 5003 5555 292/854 300/4 310/31       SEEN-BY: 320/219 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 633/280 640/1138 1321 1384       SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/1 2452/250 3634/0 12 15 27 50 119       PATH: 3634/12 640/1384 221/1 280/464 229/426           |
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