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echo: binkley
to: Dave Beach
from: Andrew Leary
date: 1997-03-05 23:35:46
subject: XR4 `bug`?

Hello Dave!

Sunday March 02 1997 08:30, Dave Beach wrote to Thomas Waldmann:

 DB> I use the Watcom DOS version. I have a downlink with whom I have a
 DB> session password. This downlink mistakenly disappeared from the
 DB> nodelist on Friday. When the downlink called me, his mail properly
 DB> landed in my unsecure inbound. Why did Binkley XR4 send the mail that
 DB> was waiting here for him?

Session passwords are stored in the nodelist indexes.  Since the node in
question wasn't in the nodelist, there wasn't a password for him in the
nodelist indexes.  Therefore, Binkley didn't know to expect one.

Andrew

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