Hi Bob.

10-Dec-03 00:27:44, Bob Stout wrote to Bill.Birrell!2.25.200.0{at}filegate.ne


 BS> From: Bob Stout 

 BS> On 10 Dec 2003 Bill.Birrell!2.25.200.0{at}filegate.net wrote:

 BS> This issue has come up before. The problem is the same as we faced
 BS> when the Yahoo groups gateway was active - all Fidonet mail
 BS> appears on the Internet side of things to have come from the same
 BS> person. This screws up quoting and such on this side of the fence,
 BS> so the mangled name was added to identify the sender when the
 BS> message came from Fidonet. Unfortunately, when the name gets
 BS> propagated back across the fence, the additional information
 BS> appended messes up your Fidonet mailer

on the fidonet side we don't need the fido address info in the name field we
have it already in the (FTS-9)  "\x01REPLY:"  control line

I see no reason to needlessly duplicate the info, especially since it
doesn't all fit in the name field anyway.

ISTM  pre-processor could be written to filter Bills inbound and strip (or
blank) the offending characters, it;s not like there's a dearth of
programmers in this conference!

 -=> Bye <=-

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