Subj : hpt bug: Missing seen+by's in echomails send to same zone links
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Thu Feb 01 2024 10:28 am

Hello Wilfred,

Wednesday January 31 2024, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 WV>>> 3:770/1 Seems to be using hpt/lnx 1.9 2022-07-03

 MD>> It is more important to know whether 3:712/848 uses hpt.

 WV> He does, but it's not relevant.

 WV> I've also seen this happen where the second system doesn't use hpt.

 WV> This involves:

 WV>   1:154/10 hpt
 WV>   1:154/30 synchronet
 WV>   2:280/464 me (using FMail)

 WV> Where 1:154/10 also posts messages in the STATS area. And I'm getting
 WV> them also as dupes from 1:154/30.
 WV> 1:154/10 Investigated his outbound .pkt files for me and 1:154/30, the
 WV> seen+by's where different, where they should be the same.

 WV>>> I've also confirmed the same thing happening on another system
 WV>>> using hpt/lnx 1.9 2023-02-24.

 MD>> I cannot promise I'll be able to address this issue any time
 MD>> soon, but to do it I must have the hpt configuration from
 MD>> 3:712/848 and two messages: the message he receives from 3:770/1
 MD>> and the message he sends to you. My email address is in the
 MD>> tagline.

 WV> Maybe I can give you those for the 1:154/* case above. But it really
 WV> is as I told you, it was thoroughly investigated!

 WV> But it should be easy for you to test it yourself. Just write a
 WV> message in an echomail area for which you have links in multiple
 WV> zones, and check the seen+by's in the generated outbound .pkt files
 WV> for these links. They should all be the same, but they won't be...

OK, I see. Thank you.

Michael

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