Hi! Wilfred,

On Sat, 16 Sep 17, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> Just between you & me before anyone else notices: how
 PQ>> does one bargain with or bribe FMail into exporting a 
 PQ>> FREQ netmail into the binkD stream?
 WvV> You can't.

I am crushed.  :(

 PQ>> FMail completely ignores a FREQ from me to my main
 PQ>> node,
 WvV> That's by design. Freq's are not really the domain of a
 WvV> mail processor/tosser.

You had better tell FTools then.  It has a 'post' function sporting a '-r'
switch (I wasn't using it... honest).

 WvV> A BSO mailer needs a .req file to send a file request to a
 WvV> node.

That's all the tosser needs to do in a BSO environment: parse the Subj
field for FREQ-able filename(s), and create the .Req file for the intended
system from the netmail.  That .Req file is added to the .Flo file.  The
contents are the requested filename(s) at one per line.

 WvV>  So if you would pack a netmail with a freq flag into
 WvV> a .pkt file nothing that you expect would happen except of
 WvV> course the .pkt file would be send to the node. Where it
 WvV> would be handled by the nodes tosser, and not by the
 WvV> mailer or freq processor...

That is something like a FrontDoor/Intermail environment (maybe not the
.Pkt part).  I dunno any more as I gave up on FroDo last century.

I'm pretty sure these are the ways that FastEcho works.  That may not carry
much weight with you and I am not wielding it as if in an argument; I'm
just saying.  IAC, I am happy to be corrected by Mark Lewis as he knows
best.

OTOH, I have learned to not be able to FREQ via netmail from node #1384
since having used CrashMail II for the last five years.  It is similarly
retarded.  I'm not disappointed, just crushed.  ;-)

Thank you for your time.

Cheers,
Paul.

--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox