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echo: locsysop
to: Rod Speed
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-05-08 09:18:14
subject: echomail

RS> The problem is that you barely even test changes, just release and pray.
RS> It aint exactly a terrific idea to just use stuff released like that.

It gets live-tested by the first person to use it.

PE> I am recompiling Tobruk now, with that bit of code commented
PE> out, to allow what appears to be "routed echomail".  Then I
PE> will recompile it back to normal.  And then THAT IS IT.  NO MORE.

RS> That doesnt sound like a terribly practical approach, because its quite
RS> feasible for other than PKTs generated by PQWK to have that problem. In
RS> other words, even if the latest PQWK is used, you havent allowed for
RS> some other point which doesnt even use PQWK at all doing that blemish.

No, it's only a problem with people who send me packets directly.
The problem is that the address of the sender is not 711/934 but
whatever crap was in an inserted origin line.  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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