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echo: locsysop
to: Rod Speed
from: Keith Richardson
date: 1995-06-12 01:22:28
subject: Netmails

On (10 Jun 95) Rod Speed wrote to Paul Edwards...



 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 the problem that

 RS> netmails arriving from outside your system which havent got the point bit

 RS> for whatever reason, will just be silently filed in the bin for those

 RS> points.



 RS> And some systems CANT include the point bit in a netmail. Tad dangerous.

 RS> Particularly if it happens to be a moderators message.



just dont upset moderators.



                        Keith



... I'm a modemer & I'm OK, I post all night & I work all day(yawn)



--- PPoint 1.88


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