From: nospam.Nick.Andre@f426.n229.z1.fidonet.org

On 25 Oct 21 14:25:39, G00R00 said the following to Paul Hayton:

I'll build a new pre-alpha if you'd like to test it. One thing to note thou is that this build requires you to reset the dupe database (delete echodupes.dat)

FYI, in the "I have a recipe for boiling water" catagory, I published a new version of D'Bridge which checks for duplicate MSGID's. It does this not by logging everything in one huge database but a seperate database per-system of message received, with the ability to place a cap on the number of entries to maintain. D'Bridge uses a Base36 formula for naming these tiny files.

I admit its still an overtly sloppy concept no matter what; I don't understand how MSGID came to be accepted as a "standard" for dupe-checking when CRC's of the header, Seen-by and circular Path detection works best. To me MSGID is
just lazy programming. The vast majority of dupes over the years has been
from Sysops inadvertently rescanning their message-bases; which could be
nuked by just checking for dates X amount in the past.

I know about the Reply kludge and how it appeals to the obsessive-compulsive types to have threaded replies... but still... Ahh well. You get what I mean.

Nick

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