On Fri, 03 Apr 2015, Nicholas Boel wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> and you sent it to my 1:3634/12 address?? i've nothing here from 
 ml> you :?

 NB> Bleh, you found it. That's why I don't usually reply via netmail 
 NB> to posted messages, as I don't pay attention to the address I'm 
 NB> replying to.. only the person. :(

not a problem... at one time i was using my laptop and its /12.71 point
installation for most all of my fidonet stuff... since the new hardware is
in place, i'm mostly in the computer room where i can work on it... since
it sits beside my main system, i'm doing more from there when i do fidonet
stuff... the laptop has become wrapped up with other stuff and is not as
easily accessible as it was... that should all be changing in the future
though... there's at least 6 different fidonet connected installations here
so echomail is seen on most of them but netmail is definitely specific to
the destination ;) 

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 NB> Either that, or your Mystic system banned my IP address.

no ban in place that i found... i think the "MULTILPE" log entry
or whatever it was was indicating that mystic thought you were already
connected... in other words, a stuck connection... especially since the DSL
had dropped quite many times over the course of when it started and when i
was able to fix it...

 NB> I've seen that happen before and have seen the same failed 
 NB> connections with other Mystic systems that I crash mail to. I've 
 NB> asked for a fix for that quite some time ago (binkp should either 
 NB> have it's own connections per minute(s) settings, or at the very 
 NB> least be immune to the current one that covers *every* protocol), 
 NB> but it hasn't been done yet.

i think i understand what you are saying here... i know that binkd and the
argus family have something to limit the number of attempts to connect and
then they have a stand-off time for the delay between attempts plus another
counter for total attempts before a system is marked as uncontactable... i
don't know if those counters, especially the last one, are rest if the
remote system initiates a successful connection, though... they should...
hopefully mystic will expand on things like this... i remember trying to
point out something similar and using FD as an example of what a feature
rich mailer offers... we can only wait and see what happens in the
future...

)\/(ark