Subj : Re: Rougue bot
To   : Apam
From : Atreyu
Date : Mon Nov 08 2021 10:36 pm

On 09 Nov 21  13:05:14, Apam said the following to Atreyu:

A> Yes, but what if Avon is away?

Easy... its a silly hobby, not an enterprise-grade commercial network.

The sun rises and sets no matter if he's busy listening to whatever Abba is 
limping to the barn with or obsessing about dinner with Gillian Anderson.

A> Why didn't you just cut the feeds of Seen-By stripping nodes?

Its a tad hard to cut the feeds of Seen-by stripping nodes when they are
in-between the Paths of systems that have peered/meshed with others. Even if 
that system got its feed from here, what good is a feed cut when he's peered 
with 2 or 3 other systems? And one of them runs that crap Fastecho tosser 
where the Seen-by stripping is hardcoded?

When you have something like FSX or most Othernets, its mickey-mouse simple to
design a distribution topology to prevent almost all of these problems.

A> I certainly don't think it's an asinine suggestion.

I certainly do and I'm almost certain G00R00 feels the same, only he may be 
a bit more "nicer" than I am. Whats the saying... clean up your own backyard 
before commenting on your neighbours.

If you don't want 8000 identical messages, then Avon as a ZC should personally
make sure as many precautions are in place in his network to prevent this
amongst the Sysops participating. Whats a Sysop with a Bot doing posting in
FSX in the first place? Was it deliberate or an accident? Either scenario
needs absolutely zero hand-holding or "improvement" from a developer.

No peering/meshing, nobody stripping Seen-bys, no buggy tossers, no buggy Bot
programs, no circular paths, no rescans/dumps... do all this and you would
have a very clean running network with guaranteed "zero" problems with dupes.

Atreyu

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