Hi Mark!

Mar 17 07:10 2015, mark lewis wrote to Markus Reschke:

 MR>> What is the correct term for the process of echomail leaving a node
 MR>> in one zone and entering a node in another zone?

 ml> it isn't zone gating... there is no term for it unless the echomail 
 ml> is crossing between different FTNs (eg: fidonetagoranet) which is 
 ml> plain simple gating as far as i can remember right now at 0700 with 
 ml> no c0ffee... echomail crossing between zones in the same FTN is 
 ml> simply echomail crossing between zones... there's nothing special 
 ml> about it...

It seems that I'm not the only one talking about echomail zone gating ;)

FSC-0093 (Reduced seen-by lines):

  PATH considerations
  -------------------
  There are 2 problems with the PATH kludge as specified in FTS-0004:

  First like in the FSB the addresses in the PATH are 2D, and having
  the same 2D address in different zones is possible. Therefore zone
  gates are required to use the TSB algorithm.


FSC-0068 (A Proposed Replacement For FTS-0004):

Current practice is to strip SEEN-BYs at zone and domain gates since
their 2-D nature make them useless for duplicate message checking beyond
a given zone.


The hpt documentation has a section about zone gating under "4 Advanced
Concepts in HPT".

Just saying :)

Regards,
Markus

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