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Over 130,000 Files online. Here are a few new ones:
Total 317611 bytes in 1 file(s)
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Total 317611 bytes in 1 file(s)
Is this really necessary multiple times a day? <sigh>
On 2017 Nov 01 07:11:16, you wrote to Filey Mcfileface:
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Total 317611 bytes in 1 file(s)
Is this really necessary multiple times a day? <sigh>
"Filey" is a bot... a misconfigured bot but a bot nonetheless...
"Filey" is a bot... a misconfigured bot but a bot nonetheless...
Ya mean I was responding to an imaginary entity??? <g>
My hope (As misplaced as it might be) was that the individual might
happen to read some of the echos that his bot spams.
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Is this really necessary multiple times a day? <sigh>
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Is this really necessary multiple times a day? <sigh>
If you look at little closer, they were randoms over the past 30 days.
Why the were posted to this echo as well as others where they're not wanted
On 2017 Nov 01 07:11:16, you wrote to Filey Mcfileface:
[...]
Total 317611 bytes in 1 file(s)
Is this really necessary multiple times a day? <sigh>
"Filey" is a bot... a misconfigured bot but a bot nonetheless...
Ya mean I was responding to an imaginary entity??? <g>
My hope (As misplaced as it might be) was that the individual might
happen to read some of the echos that his bot spams.
yeah, IIRC, it is mike miller's war ensemble bbs... whatever is going
on, it seems to maybe be related to new features in sbbsecho...
How so?
yeah, IIRC, it is mike miller's war ensemble bbs... whatever is going on, it seems to maybe be related to new features in sbbsecho...
yeah, IIRC, it is mike miller's war ensemble bbs... whatever is
going on, it seems to maybe be related to new features in
sbbsecho...
How so?
On 2017 Nov 04 12:53:32, you wrote to me:
yeah, IIRC, it is mike miller's war ensemble bbs... whatever is going
on, it seems to maybe be related to new features in sbbsecho...
How so?
one slightly educated wild-arsed guess is it is maybe related to the new adding
of unconfigured echos...
we haven't seen the code or updated in a few months
and we're not sure what mike's configuration is/was on the echo side but it would explain the duplicated 58 messages dumped in various echos on various days if maybe those echos were being newly added to his config...
where and
why
the 58 duplicated posts are coming from? no clue but obviously somewhere on his
system as they were in order from the first of Oct to the end...
again, it is a slightly educated wild-arsed guess that kinda fits the timeline when the code was available and likely being tested on a live system...
smbutil only posts msgs to local sub-boards, and only one msg per invocation of smbutil (you pass a sub's internal code, not an
areatag). It's the job of something else (e.g. SBBSecho) to export
local msgs into FTN echoes via packets and bundles, etc. It's possible
the sysop has a single local sub connected with multiple echoes via
his areas.bbs file. But that's just a guess. I only chimed in here
because someone was pointing the finger at my software and I wanted to know why.
one slightly educated wild-arsed guess is it is maybe related to the
new adding of unconfigured echos... we haven't seen the code or
updated in a few months and we're not sure what mike's configuration is/was on the echo side but it would explain the duplicated 58
messages dumped in various echos on various days if maybe those echos
were being newly added to his config... where and why the 58
duplicated posts are coming from? no clue but obviously somewhere on
his system as they were in order from the first of Oct to the end...
What happens with smbutil when you don't specify an areatag to post in? MYSTIC,
FMAIL_HELP, some German echo, and a few others have all been flooded with these
reports, so maybe they were rescanned out by sbbsecho after he upgraded? I'm clueless as to what actually happened, and am only taking wild guesses here, but I had to pause his feed from here until it's figured out and fixed.
one slightly educated wild-arsed guess is it is maybe related to the
new adding of unconfigured echos... we haven't seen the code or
updated in a few months and we're not sure what mike's configuration
is/was on the echo side but it would explain the duplicated 58
messages dumped in various echos on various days if maybe those echos
were being newly added to his config... where and why the 58
duplicated posts are coming from? no clue but obviously somewhere on
his system as they were in order from the first of Oct to the end...
Only 58 made it through?
Well, I suppose it's a lot better than the 10,000+ my system stopped
here and didn't send on (anything over 30 days old, which was a lot).
;)
Otherwise, I didn't check to see if any of the ones that actually went through were posted with new MSGIDs from their original or not, which
is also possible.
Hello Rob,
On Mon Nov 06 2017 12:40:38, Rob Swindell wrote to Nicholas Boel:
That said, I'm not blaming your software.. but I originally pointed
out that these dupes started the day he upgraded to the Oct 31
sources.
The spam/dupes I see in this echo appeared on Oct-3. In some other echoes, they appeared later (e.g. Oct-13), but not Oct-31. <shrug>
Take another look at the timestamps of said "file report" messages that came from War Ensemble BBS. They were dated from Oct. 1 up until Nov 4th I believe.
They were not marked as dupes because they were never (and should
not have ever
been) posted here in the first place.
That said, the last I heard from him was it was a little more than a configuration issue, so you may have some config files coming your way.
That said, I'm not blaming your software.. but I originally pointed out that these dupes started the day he upgraded to the Oct 31 sources.
That said, I'm not blaming your software.. but I originally pointed
out that these dupes started the day he upgraded to the Oct 31
sources.
The spam/dupes I see in this echo appeared on Oct-3. In some other
echoes, they appeared later (e.g. Oct-13), but not Oct-31. <shrug>
Looks like Bill just got bit by it too, but glad to see it was found and fixed quickly!
That said, the last I heard from him was it was a little more than
a configuration issue, so you may have some config files coming
your way.
Yup, it was an SBBSecho bug introduced on Oct-27, unrelated to any new feature usage (now fixed). Apparently DaiTengu runs SBBSecho in a
manner that is uncommon (handles both importing and exporting with
every invocation) and the problem only occurred in that scenario. So
no one else has encountered this issue, thankfully.
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