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 much
 ml> the same way as using FTP...

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

i dunno what "rules" per se' but yes... that would seem to be the
idea... i made my comment with the vision of someone bitching because they
sent email to a robot address and were complaining because no human
responded ;)

)\/(ark