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echo: locsysop
to: Frank Malcolm
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1994-11-13 10:31:34
subject: remap

FM> As a further comment, why have you done so? I was reading in another
 FM> place just today that some BBSs (or some part of the whole mail
 FM> routing structure - it wasn't clear what was being discussed) *don't*
 FM> allow you to send to the point address - you must send to the boss.
 
I haven't heard that one before.  I doubt that there's any BBS
where if you send mail to a point, it doesn't get there, but
if you had sent it to the boss, it would.  Any software that
doesn't recognize points would simply ignore the TOPT kludge. 
 
 FM> Makes it hard to remember which requires what, and if there's no/minimal
 FM> administrative overhead, why not do it? As Rod Speed said, it's the
 FM> fail-safe option.

It's more a case of I don't like adding them in.  Dave Hatch 
doesn't put in a remap for "Paul Edwards" to send it to me.
I think it's the wrong thing to do, that's what addresses are
for.  I would be happy to write a utility that did a scan of
the BBS netmail area and printed out a list of all messages
that weren't routed though.  I have temporarily put the Remaps
back in, because of other reasons.  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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