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echo: locsysop
to: Frank Malcolm
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1995-01-17 09:53:14
subject: new passwords

BL> It ought to *add* the "From:" line without removing the other.
 BL> It has to do that in Netmail because it doesn't send your
 BL> address with an "* Origin..." line and the poor bugger on the
 BL> other end wouldn't know where it came from, otherwise.

 FM> Eh? What doesn't send an origin line?

  PKT netmail. Have a look on your next one. The sender's address is
added in the "From:" line at the top of the message. The "*
Origin..."
is removed. I suppose someone had a reason for that, but I can't
imagine what it was. Mad.

 FM> I think he probably changed it in 221, as I think I've only
 FM> done 1 upgrade. I must say I agree with Rod here about proper
 FM> testing, including regression testing to see that you didn't
 FM> break something else. Even for something as simple as this
 FM> PKTQWK stuff. There ain't no such thing as a minor software
 FM> change! :-)

  Anyway, 222 sends faulty netmail back to yourself, and I think
that's the best thing to do, even if you'll never know what you did
wrong without the "To:" address in the message.

  I didn't realise what a ramshackle system fido e-mail is, until I
wrote the conversions. It says a lot for the reliability of computers
and modems that it works at all. There is no safety net under
anything.

Regards,
Bob


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