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echo: fidotest
to: DAN CLOUGH
from: RICHARD MENEDETTER
date: 2020-02-23 09:45:00
subject: vinyl resting place

Hi Dan!

22 Feb 2020 20:38, from Dan Clough -> Daryl Stout:

 DS>>   My main hub is Marc Lewis at 1:396/45, but I'm a regional
 DS>> independent. The Little Rock Area FIDONet Net 3821 disbanded long
 DS>> ago...and there are no other BBS's in Little Rock.
 DC> None of that has anything to do with the issue at hand.  If your
 DC> nodelist entry includes the CM (continuous mail) flag, you are
 DC> stating that your system can receive netmail at any time.  If you
 DC> break that by requiring a password, you are not complying with Fidonet
 DC>  standards.

 DC> Plus, it just doesn't make any sense.  Why deny netmail?

I 100% agree with you!
And indeed it makes zero sense to deny direct netmail, and indeed it breaks the
standard!

CU, Ricsi

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