Subj : Re: %HELP ?
To : Wilfred Van Velzen
From : Nick Andre
Date : Wed Jan 18 2017 12:45 pm
On 18 Jan 17 09:49:21, Wilfred Van Velzen said the following to Nick Andre:
WV> NA> -R to RESCAN connected areas.
WV>
WV> Isn't that a very dangerous option? It's only save for nodes with no other
WV> links, otherwise a massive dupe dump would be generated.
Wrong, and not any more dangerous than any other tosser that has Rescan.
A tosser has an area called ABC. There are three downlinks. 229/100, 229/200
and 229/300. A new system, 229/400 joins and Areafixes ABC with a rescan. They
get all the messages but 100, 200 and 300 do not because they exist in the
Seen-by's in all the messages that exist already, and thus 229/400 is added
into the Seen-by's/Path going forward.
The method used is no different than Gecho, TBBS/Flame and a lot of tossers
out there... pretty sure even Fastecho does it this way but perhaps adds some
extra kludging to indicate that the message was in fact, rescanned.
You know very well that there is no fool-proof way for a tosser to offer a
Rescan feature, because some Sysop, somewhere, somehow, will find a way to
break it or configure things in a way not intended, and we get "dupe-dumps".
Nick
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