Niels, at 20:54 on May 16 1997, you wrote to David Drummond ...

>>>> Yep. And it's more or less private. NFA (ie no fucking
>>>> arsewipes)

>> NP> Bloody Luvverly :-)

>> NP> I even altered the flags on both Locuser & Locsysop to 
>> NP> allow private messages to pass through. If John and David 
>> NP> did the same you could send private mesaages to someone 
>> NP> along with the normal echo mail and not have to resort to 
>> NP> routed netmail. I figured it would be a handy feature.

>> A point system mail reader will display private echo messages 
>> regardless of the private flag...

NP> Does that mean that Bob L and FIM using TinyPoint could 
NP> actually see a message in this echo, from me to you that was 
NP> flagged private.

I reckon so.

NP>  send one and find out.....

Don't go making a habit of that (thinking) ...

>> It would only be on BBSs that the private flag was honoured.

NP> But a BBS sysop has access to all the messages and could see 
NP> them? But any users calling his sytem would not see them?

Yes

NP> Have I got it right?

Yes

NP> I noticed that on Christians system, a netmail message that 
NP> had been routed through his system, was marked Transit/Kill.
NP> Does this mean that it would have been deleted from the 
NP> netmail folder on the next poll?

Yes - That's how my software works anyway.
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