Hi mark!

Wednesday May 31 2006, mark lewis wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 MvdV>> P4 was written with little or no concern for the situation
 MvdV>> outside Z1 period.  For one it tacitly assumes local calls are
 MvdV>> free. So it does not matter who calls who when it comes to the
 MvdV>> host's obligation of delivering incoming routed mail. In Z2 local
 MvdV>> calls are *not* free and so it does matter who calls who. That is
 MvdV>> just one example, there are many others.

 ml> i beg to disagree... in the document known as P4, section 4.1 states

 ml> "
 ml> A Network Coordinator has the following responsibilities:

 ml>    1) To receive incoming mail for nodes in the network, and arrange
 ml>    delivery to its recipients.
 ml> "

 ml> note the word "arrange"... seems that many skip over that words and
 ml> "assume" that that statement means that the NC's machine
will call the
 ml> destination and send the message(s) to it... this is not so when one
 ml> includes that one, critical, word...

 ml> "arranging delivery" can include an arrangement whereby
the destination
 ml> node calls the NC's system(s) and picks up any waiting netmail headed to
 ml> the destination system...

There not write "NC himself transfer a mail". So - he can allow
this functions to any nodes - HUB-Coordinators or host of network.

We have networks with different communication protocols from NC's node and
nodes other sysops of the network, connect by hub with both communication
protocols.

Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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