Hi Maurice,

On 2019-04-03 16:33:35, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> For instance if someone wants to send a reply by netmail which of
 WvV>> the two should be used?

 MK> netmail is totally different but offhand I think you are probably right
 MK> about the confusion software may or may not have about this issue.
 MK> However, if the purpose of the MSGID is to facillitate dupechecking, and
 MK> nothing else, then I would think any node that uses point addressing to
 MK> avoid false dupes on a multiuser system would be a good thing even when the
 MK> pont address is not included in the Origin and perhaps shouldn't be.  But
 MK> that is just echomail and netmail has it's own checks and balances as far
 MK> as addressing is concerned.  No?

When I reply by netmail to that message with the point number, GoldEd
automatically uses the point address as the destination. So since the
header of a packed message doesn't have room for the point number part of
the FTN address, it seems the address from the MSGID is used for this. So
it doesn't seem like a good idea to add a random point number to the MSGID,
unless it really exists in the nodes system configuration, or it is ignored
by the systems software...

Bye, Wilfred.

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