Greg Mayman (3:800/449) wrote to Steven Horn at 16:33 on 22 Apr 2003:

 SH> the sysop may simply maintain a BBS which will give the user access to
 SH> netmail but may not give the user access to netmail.

I should have said "will give the user access to echomail but may not
give the user access to netmail."

 GM> For some reason the two BBSs that I subscribe to as a user do not
 GM> have netmail facilities. I don't pretend to understand the
 GM> reasons for this, but I guess the reasons are valid to sysops. 

It's been so long since I used to access a QMail-based BBS or a BBS which
carried RIME that I don't even pretend to know how they work any longer. 
But I do remember that the privacy of RIME netmail made Fidonet's netmail
look like a paragon of privacy.:-)


I would think that the BBS software might have some difficulty in packing
and unpacking netmail to the point that a sysop would say "To hell
with it".
 
Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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