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echo: mystic
to: mark lewis
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2017-06-26 21:44:12
subject: Re: Connecting to mystic system doesn`t work

Hi mark,

On 2017-06-26 14:47:10, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Thanks for getting involved to fix this!

 ml> still waiting on word back... hopefully the operator will wake up soon...

Are we talking about 1:123/0 here?

 ml> sad that there aren't any netmail zonegates for his other networks so
 ml> that one could send netmail through them to his system... zonegates
 ml> were a GoodThing... granted, they were used for fidonet zones in
 ml> the beginning but the concept works and worked great for othernets,
 ml> too... sure, some of them may not want contact from "fidonet" but
 ml> we're only talking about netmail here, not echos... route or deliver
 ml> direct to the zonegate and let them handle delivery on the other side
 ml> based on their network ops... it is crazy to have to join an othernet
 ml> just to be able to let someone know of a problem on their system...
 ml> that's playing othernet roulette just trying to find one that they may
 ml> be active on...

I don't see how that would have helped here. I couldn't deliver crash mail
to this node (as a node of either net), because he disabled unsecure
sessions. So I tried a routed netmail in fidonet, guessing he would have a
secure connection setup with his Host.

Bye, Wilfred.

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