-=> Steven Horn said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "NETMAIL?" on 04-24-03  18:51.....

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

"I know you think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm
not sure you realize that what you read was not what I meant to
write." Yeah. I have the same trouble... 
 
 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. 

And I have to make a correction as i have just received a
netmail!

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


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

 SH> Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
 SH> Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
 SH> -!- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
 SH>  ! Origin: Yukon Mail Only (northof60.tzo.com), Whitehorse,Canada
 SH> (1:17/67)



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