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Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:38:13 -0500
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At 08:01 AM 9/26/2005 -0400, Mark Berman wrote:
>To Nathan: My reading of Daily-Threshold is that it limits the number of
>postings to the list per day. Why does that affect the CRC check tracking?
>If that's true does it imply that CRC tracking is reset every day at
>midnight? That doesn't fit with what I'm seeing.

Here, verbatim, is what Eric told me a year ago tomorrow:

>LISTSERV just keeps  the same number of  checksums as "Daily-Threshold=".
>This ensures that there can be no  infinite loops - the only way LISTSERV
>can forget a looping  message is if the list gets  held anyway because it
>ran into the daily limit.

CRC tracking is NOT reset at midnight.  LISTSERV simply keeps that 
number of CRCs cached and obsoletes them in a FIFO manner as new CRCs 
are added.

Nathan

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