Much obliged for all the attention and support, and Mark especially your specific pointers.? I was confused and didn't know it.? Now I do but may still be.
Here is what I've confirmed and/or changed:
1/? Main Config:? Confirm H Route is FL.USA.NOAM
2/? Users:? Confirm there is a K4WOF User with Home BBS K4WOF.FL.USA.NOAM
3/? Forwarding:? Yes, I mistakenly had a forwarding config for myself.? No more.
4/? Re Send Messages to more than one BBS.? It was checked.? Not now.
5/? Nowhere did I have K4WOF.K4WOF etc.? No idea where that came from on the original message that caused all this trouble :-(
6/? Checked for correct HA and HR entries.
7/? Killed the offending message
The node is being restarted.? Watching for smoke, bluescreens and static from the group :-)
73,
Jer K4WOF
On Friday, August 30th, 2024 at 8:06 AM, Mark Taylor <mtaylor@...> wrote:
Now, why does a bbs forward a message when the message is addressed to himself at that bbs?
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Does the user have a user record for himself at that BBS?? And the user record HomeBBS is that BBS??? I believe this, together with the address, is how BPQ knows to stop forwarding the message and hold it there for the user to read it.? I could be wrong here. It should stop when the BBS is reached regardless.
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So, Jerry, do you have a user record for yourself on your BBS with an accurate HomeBBS entered?
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I do think Charles is right in that Jerry needs to look closer to his forwarding rules.? However, 'moving the message closer to it's destination' while always a goal is not always possible.? For example, I am in South Texas (@STX) and there are stations in North Texas (#NTX) but I have no route to them.? However, I have a forwarding parnter in CO that does. So, I forward messages I receive at my bbs addressed to #NTX to CO, where my forwarding partner has a route to #NTX and he delivers the message to #NTX for delivery.
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John programed BPQ with the logic of comparing the elements of the HA with the forwarding rules found on the BBS and select the closest match to forward the message. And obviously to eliminate the possibility of a loop BPQ will not forward the message back to the bbs from which it was recieved.? Maybe not even to ANY bbs shown in the R lines.? So, that is why some messages take unexpected routes.
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I also have noticed that I had "Send personal messages to more than one BBS" checked, and a message to me was further forwarded by me to all of my Texas forwarding partners whose forwarding record was a match. When I unchecked this box that extra forwarding stopped.? I think that might also cause what happened to Jerry.? So, a question to Jerry, do you have "Send personal messages to more than one bbs" checked?
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John may need to look at that programming logic again.
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Mark
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