I saw your latest message.  There has been some confusion.

On 1996-05-29 18:42, David Drummond of 3:640/305 wrote:

DD> Paul, at 22:26 on May 28 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

PE>> Russell, are you doing anything to fix your PATH lines?

Above is where I was prompting Russell to do something about his
PATH line, after having sent him this message...


Date:   1996-05-22 07:55:26
From:   Paul Edwards of 3:711/934.9
To:     Russell Brooks
Subj:   bad messages
Attr:   Loc Scn 
Conf:   LOCSYSOP                      

Russell, you are sending stuff with an out-of-spec PATH, it is 3D
instead of 2D.  What are you doing?  BFN.  Paul.



DD>> They don't bother my software - yours must be fucked!

Above is where you couldn't give a shit.



PE> *YOUR* system is sending me an out-of-spec message.  YOUR 
PE> software is fucked.  That is a PC-able offence BTW.  You do 
PE> not have the right to send out-of-spec messages to me, just 
PE> because you received one yourself.  

Above is where I was pointing out that 3:640/305, being the
responsible fidonet node, was entering out-of-spec messages
into the network.  YOU are responsible for all of your point's
mail, and I pointed out to you that it was a pretty piss-poor
attitude of yours to just sit back and say "who gives a shit",
just because YOU PERSONALLY aren't affected, when it is YOUR
SYSTEM that is responsible for the messages.  In this case,
Russell's messages, being your responsibility, were the ones
I was talking about.



DD> In what way is the message out of spec?  

Above I assumed that you were being a smartarse, since I had
already sent a message to Russell telling him exactly what was
wrong with his PATH line, and if you wanted to play silly buggers
when I've already told you the answer, you can read the spec 
yourself and do the silly-buggering yourself.

If you'd come back with something along the lines of "I've had
a look at my messages, and they look OK to me, I don't know what
you're talking about", I might have twigged that you didn't know
I was still talking about Russell's 3D PATH line.


You might want to let DN know that it was just a misunderstanding.

BFN.  Paul.
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