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echo: locsysop
to: Bill Grimsley
from: Rod Speed
date: 1994-12-15 12:18:00
subject: bad netmail

BL> I've decided that if I find a "To:" anywhere in a message, followed
BL> by a set of numbers in the xxx:xxx/xxx.xxx format, then I'll assume
BL> it's netmail and send it.

BL> At present, I have two ways to send netmail: use the netmail area
BL> (address optional),

BG> That's OK if the recipient is calling the same board, but without
BG> an address, how would it be routed through other nodes ?

Some systems, packet radio in particular, actually keep a full record
of where each name was last heard from. So you could then just use the
last occurrence of what it was last seen from. Main problem with Fido
is the duplicate personal name problem.

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

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