PQ>> --- SBBSecho 2.27-Win32
PQ>> * Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)
PQ>> SEEN-BY: 221/1 280/5555 640/305 384 1384 690/682
PQ>> PATH: 249/303 280/464 5555 640/384
TK> Both of these messages have address of origin on PATH line, but not on
TK> SEENBY line.
right... some software adds their address to the seenbys and some doesn't...
here's what FTS-0004 has to say about seenbys...
[quote]
4. Seen-by Lines
There can be many seen-by lines at the end of Conference
Mail messages, and they are the real "meat" of the control
information. They are used to determine the systems to
receive the exported messages. The format of the line is:
SEEN-BY: 132/101 113 136/601 1014/1
The net/node numbers correspond to the net/node numbers of
> the systems having already received the message. In this way
> a message is never sent to a system twice. In a conference
with many participants the number of seen-by lines can be
very large. This line is added if it is not already a part
of the message, or added to if it already exists, each time
a message is exported to other systems. This is a REQUIRED
field, and Conference Mail will not function correctly if
this field is not put in place by other Echomail compatible
programs.
[/quote]
note the two hilited lines... strict reading of that line might suggest that
each system that gets a message add their address to the seenbys... another
view is like that used today where the sending system adds the addresses of the
systems it is sending the message to... nothing is really said about what an
originating system should do with its address and the seenbys... on one hand,
it makes sense to add it, on the other, it is in the origin and the first in
the path so it should be apparent that it saw it already...
then think about what happens when a point originates an echomail message...
take this one for example ;)
TK> I have received also some .PKT's from Andrew's FE, but I didn't find any
TK> failures yet.
that's a good thing :)
)\/(ark
... That old thing? It is a pretty good work of fiction, though!
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