Re: Test
  By: Michiel van der Vlist to mark lewis on Sun Jun 07 2020 03:45 pm

 > Hello mark,
 >
 > On Sunday June 07 2020 08:50, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:
 >
 >  TK>> Soupgate has problems with your type of msgid. As you may see
 >  TK>> about this message.
 >
 >  ml> because soupgate has a design defect in it... it attempts to parse the
 >  ml> msgid instead of simply using it as a message identification string...
 >
 > What is wrong with attempting to parse a string that is supposed to be a
 > valid return address?

It assumes that the software can understand the format of all network
addresses. Messages that are gated to FTN from other network types could (and
do) have very foreign appearing address formats that do not resemble any kind
of FTN address. In fact, FTS-9 even eludes to such foreign address formats by
codifying how a "double-quote character within a ... address" is to be
represented. Trying to parse/use the address from a message-ID is just a bad
idea. If you need an address of the originator, there's other/better ways to
get it.

 >  ml> it seems to work perfectly fine in the years it has been being used...
 >
 > Calling it a design defect in soupgate is a strawman. Soupgate is OK with
 > software that properly follows FTS-009. It is the design defect in
 > Synchronet/SBBS that is the casue of the problem.

You're wrong.

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