Subj : Re: Seen-by lines
To   : mark lewis
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Mon Apr 01 2019 09:40 am

On 31 Mar 2019 at 12:53p, mark lewis pondered and said...

ml> well, there's the problem... there must be a net on the first address of
ml> each line... if they are all in net1, it should look like this:

Hi Mark.

This is not an area of expertise for me but I went looking for info on the
fstc.org site and found this

[snip]

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.

[snip]

There does not seem to be any reference to requiring that NET be displayed at
the start of each SEEN-BY line - perhaps I should be looking at another
reference doc?

Best, Paul

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