Alan wrote (2021-05-03):

 AI> The question is simply..

 AI> Is it desirable to decompress netmail in the insecure inbound that has
 AI> arrived in the form of an arcmail compressed mail bundle?

no, it isn't.

you don't decompress netmail, you unpack files from an archive which might be netmail pkts or something else.

 AI> I find no policy or FTN standard that directs nodes not to do that and
 AI> that is why it happens.

There is also no policy or standard that directs the anonymous idiot not to send highly compressible garbage in an "arcmail compressed mail bundle" that blows up on the DOS partition on unpack.

But we don't have to discuss the failures of Policy 4.bollocks or the FTSC.

Which software does deliver netmail as a compressed mail bundle? Is it all kinds of different tossers or some specific software that does it by default?

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