On Fri, 22 May 2015, Kees van Eeten wrote to Janis Kracht:

 JK> other members of the NAB got all the messages that Ross did not 
 JK> receive. You should be able to see this.

 KvE>  I am totally confused here, as I understand it Ross chose to move
 KvE> the messages  to his bad messages area, so he did receive them.

he did not chose to move those messages to his badmail area... there are no
entry for ward's system for the FIDONEWS echo tag so the tosser rightly saw
those messages as badmail and placed them properly...

 KvE> But he apparently does not  read that area on a regular basis.

many do not... especially when they have hundreds or thousands of posts in them
to go through...

 KvE>  There were others that feed from Ross, with no other feeds, that
 KvE> did not get  the messages.

correct...

 KvE>  If Ross chooses to move the messages to the bad messages area,

he didn't chose... it is the way all tossers work... no entry in an echo area
definition means badmail...

 KvE> that is  controlled by the configuration of his system. You cannot
 KvE> claim that the  sysop of the feeding system to be responsible for
 KvE> configuration of the system  he feeds.

we're not... we're saying that ward could easily have taken care of this by
querying ross' areafix, seeing that ross' system did not have ward's listed as
being connected and then connected with another areafix message... that would
have solved the problem without all the old messages being reprocessed...

 KvE>  Ross apologised for the missing entry in his echo distribution
 KvE> file.  How, when and where the change in his distribution file
 KvE> happened, is  everybodies guess and that it will remain. The only
 KvE> one who can shine a  light on this change is Ross,

true...

 KvE> if he maintains a history of his changes  and has documented 
 KvE> those changes.

that's not really necessary, though...

 KvE>  All the hence and forth is just guessing and the way it is done
 KvE> does not  improove the atmosphere and relations in the echo's
 KvE> where this is discussed. 

agreed...

 KvE>  Just my two cents.

mine, too ;) 

)\/(ark