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echo: binkley
to: Dave Beach
from: Andrew Leary
date: 1997-03-05 23:41:00
subject: XR4 `bug`?

Hello Dave!

Sunday March 02 1997 15:45, Dave Beach wrote to Bob Juge:

 DB> I find it passing strange that Bink would send mail to a completely
 DB> unlisted node, particularly one with whom Bink is aware I'm supposed
 DB> to have a session password. Prior to this, I would have thought Bink

Binkley isn't aware that you have a session password with anyone.  The only
way it knows to expect a password is if one exists in your nodelist
indexes.

 DB> would say "you're not in any nodelist I have, chum, I don't care who
 DB> you're pretending to be" and refuse to send the mail.

You might want to consider the "Curmudgeon" keyword; it disables
sessions with unlisted systems.

Andrew

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