On 2017 Jan 18 12:45:22, you wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen:   
      
    WV>> Isn't that a very dangerous option? It's only save for nodes with no   
    WV>> other links, otherwise a massive dupe dump would be generated.   
      
    NA> Wrong, and not any more dangerous than any other tosser that has Rescan.   
      
   agreed...   
      
    NA> A tosser has an area called ABC. There are three downlinks. 229/100,   
    NA> 229/200 and 229/300. A new system, 229/400 joins and Areafixes ABC   
    NA> with a rescan. They get all the messages but 100, 200 and 300 do not   
    NA> because they exist in the Seen-by's in all the messages that exist   
    NA> already, and thus 229/400 is added into the Seen-by's/Path going   
    NA> forward.   
      
   so what happens when 229/400 joins and is also connected to /100, /200 and   
   /300 when they do the rescan? i thinkg that's the point that wilfred was   
   trying to make but he was making it from the POV of a fidoweb system that is   
   connected to more than one system for the same area without the entire   
   distribution being fully connected to all other systems in the fidoweb...   
      
    NA> The method used is no different than Gecho, TBBS/Flame and a lot of   
    NA> tossers out there... pretty sure even Fastecho does it this way but   
    NA> perhaps adds some extra kludging to indicate that the message was in   
    NA> fact, rescanned.   
      
   yup...   
      
    NA> You know very well that there is no fool-proof way for a tosser to   
    NA> offer a Rescan feature, because some Sysop, somewhere, somehow, will   
    NA> find a way to break it or configure things in a way not intended, and   
    NA> we get "dupe-dumps".   
      
   exactly... yet we have others working on ""hidden"" agendas trying to change   
   the entire methodology of FTN mail distribution to fit their non-standard way   
   of interconnections...   
      
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   Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it   
   wrong...   
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