11 Jan 07 10:50, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>>>> Since they're really ION nodes without contact info in the
 RW>>>> nodelist, they can get thier mail from many of the telnet nodes.
 RW>>>> Todd Cochrane

 MvdV>>> Of course. They can get echomail anywhere they want, but if they
 MvdV>>> have no listed contact information, they are really operating as
 MvdV>>> points and therefore should be listed as such. I.E. not in the
 MvdV>>> nodelist.

 RW>>> And apparently they're too stupid to find a free email address to
 RW>>> put in the nodelist to make them contactable. Hotmail, Yahoo,
 RW>>> Gmail, all of them must be full up...

 ml>> errmmm... email addresses in the nodelist are for the transfer of
 ml>> fidonet mail packets... not for direct personal contact... MIME and
 ml>> UUencoded PKTs are a(nother) way of tunneling fidonet traffic in
 ml>> much the same way as using FTP...

 RW>> Then it wouldn't be against the rules to send them a netmail via
 RW>> email.

 ml> i dunno what "rules" per se' but yes... that would seem to be the
 ml> idea...

Which is why most people who are listed in that manner have it that way.
Personal communication when nothing else seems to work.

 ml> i made my comment with the vision of someone bitching because
 ml> they sent email to a robot address and were complaining because no
 ml> human responded ;)

And then there is the email sent to the robot and a human does answer. As
in echolist robot.

               R\%/itt




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