TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: locsysop
to: Keith Richardson
from: Rod Speed
date: 1995-06-13 22:03:00
subject: Netmails

RS> Andrew who ?  Presumably you mean a non point of Pauls. That
RS> doesnt prove that netmail between Pauls points is working.
RS> Which is come to think of it one area he has played around
RS> with in the past, forget the fine detail, that business
RS> about auto remapping when the full point address isnt used.

PE> The story is that I stopped remapping on new points (after 10 or
PE> something, can't remember), and intended to take out the remap for
PE> earlier points, but then backed out of it, and haven't revisited that.

RS> Guess that sort of fits, Bill being 18. Thats still got
RS> the problem that netmails arriving from outside your
RS> system which havent got the point bit for whatever reason,
RS> will just be silently filed in the bin for those points.

RS> And some systems CANT include the point bit in a netmail. Tad
RS> dangerous. Particularly if it happens to be a moderators message.

KR> just dont upset moderators.

And just how are all his points supposed to know that Keith ?

Sounds just a tad more viable to allow the point to get the netmail,
even if it does happen to arrive without the point bit for whatever reason.

--- PQWK202
* Origin: afswlw rjfilepwq (3:711/934.2)
SEEN-BY: 711/934
@PATH: 711/934

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.