Re: Re: Just got this ...
By: Ward Dossche to mark lewis on Thu Jun 04 2020 14:19:02

Other than that, a rescan should only affect the system performing
the rescan, not everybody else...

that depends on the mail tosser... some simply toss all mail to all
links no matter if it were a rescan or not...

For all intents and purposes, I would call that a bug.

more of a design defect... but we must also remember that rescans came later and there was no indication of them having been done... also most systems were leaf nodes so rescans didn't really matter... the problem comes when a system feeding others does a rescan and doesn't know about or take the ^aRESCAN control line into account when tossing... this is all relatively new, though...


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no... you're not the only target or reader in here, either... the reply was also intended for those just reading along who don't know how FTN distribution really works ;)

How incredible it may sound, considering how many years you have been in our FTN network, you still don't seem to understand the basic principles of our network.

There are still some operators that don't know how to work echomail distribution without taking it all converted into their BBS message base. As opposed to just keep it pass-thru.

Importing messages into your proprietary BBS message base, and then exporting it from that -- with all the bugs and mistakes the BBS software has -- is what causes all those huge mistakes.

As soon as EVERY ONE claiming to take part of FTN echo mail distribution, understands the importance of pass-thru, we will forever be ridden of those "bombs".




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Re: Just got this ...
By: Björn Felten to mark lewis on Fri Jun 05 2020 13:21:08

no... you're not the only target or reader in here, either...
the reply was also intended for those just reading along who
don't know how FTN distribution really works ;)

How incredible it may sound, considering how many years you
have been in our FTN network, you still don't seem to
understand the basic principles of our network.

i understand perfectly the basic principles of our network...

you should note that in the beginning of echomail, there was no concept of passthrough echomail areas... all mail was tossed into the local message base... then it was scanned out of the local message base to downlinks... it was not tossed to the local base and to downlinks at the same time... that came later when CPU speed, memory, and storage space increased...

later, offering the ability to rescan an area was a feature introduced by some tosser specifically to enable systems to back-fill and build their message bases... sure, perhaps the idea wasn't completely thought through but it is here and it is what it is... the addition of the ^aRESCAN control line was a later addition just like all other control lines that were originally added as kludges and later became standard control lines...


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Bjorn shows up in the nodelist 8 years before you do ...

Why destroy a good myth with facts? 8-)




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