On Fri, 03 Apr 2015, Nicholas Boel wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> and you sent it to my 1:3634/12 address?? i've nothing here from 
 ml> you :?

 NB> Bleh, you found it. That's why I don't usually reply via netmail 
 NB> to posted messages, as I don't pay attention to the address I'm 
 NB> replying to.. only the person. :(

not a problem... at one time i was using my laptop and its /12.71 point
installation for most all of my fidonet stuff... since the new hardware is in
place, i'm mostly in the computer room where i can work on it... since it sits
beside my main system, i'm doing more from there when i do fidonet stuff... the
laptop has become wrapped up with other stuff and is not as easily accessible
as it was... that should all be changing in the future though... there's at
least 6 different fidonet connected installations here so echomail is seen on
most of them but netmail is definitely specific to the destination ;) 

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 NB> Either that, or your Mystic system banned my IP address.

no ban in place that i found... i think the "MULTILPE" log entry or whatever it
was was indicating that mystic thought you were already connected... in other
words, a stuck connection... especially since the DSL had dropped quite many
times over the course of when it started and when i was able to fix it...

 NB> I've seen that happen before and have seen the same failed 
 NB> connections with other Mystic systems that I crash mail to. I've 
 NB> asked for a fix for that quite some time ago (binkp should either 
 NB> have it's own connections per minute(s) settings, or at the very 
 NB> least be immune to the current one that covers *every* protocol), 
 NB> but it hasn't been done yet.

i think i understand what you are saying here... i know that binkd and the
argus family have something to limit the number of attempts to connect and then
they have a stand-off time for the delay between attempts plus another counter
for total attempts before a system is marked as uncontactable... i don't know
if those counters, especially the last one, are rest if the remote system
initiates a successful connection, though... they should... hopefully mystic
will expand on things like this... i remember trying to point out something
similar and using FD as an example of what a feature rich mailer offers... we
can only wait and see what happens in the future...

)\/(ark