AH> Hakuna Matata, Rob!

 AH> Monday September 30 1996, Rob wrote to Arnold:

 AH>>> And current Internet technology, otoh, might not send the message
 AH>>> back to Fidonet.

 RS>> Do you mean that replies to messages posted in FidoNet echoes wouldn't
 RS>> make it back?  Why not?  Presumably whatever system routed to a Usenet
 RS>> system can route the reply back, no?

 AH> Realise now, my last statement was incorrect. If a reply is made to a
 AH> Usenet message, the newsgroups line is left intact, so the message *would*
 AH> come back to Fidonet at the first gate it encounters.

uhh... another small correction...

  "... come back to Fidonet at ALL gates it encounters."

that is why the MSGID's must be calculated to be the SAME on all gates that
the message passes thru...

)\/(ark