>it wasn't being gated properly... if it were, there would have been two origin
>lines and other control lines to enable netmail replies across the zone boundr
>to work...

No, No, No, because it wasn't being gated at all.  The whole dang problem was
caused because IREX would only pass mail to a "host" system with a full net
node, not a point.  When I switched my systems around and couldn't get IREX
to work under linux, I got stuck.  The fake zone was a temporary work around
until I got it working (impossible because it is hard-wired to some old, old
dependencies) or until I got a full node number for what is really just
"half" of the BBS.

Basically, it was getting "gated" from one part of my bbs to
another, but it
wasn't going anywhere else.

And I still don't understand how we are able to have a multi-zone net if all
of our software has so many issues with zone boundaries.  I see messages from
Zones 2 and 3 all the time that are not "gated" into Zone 1. 
Unless there is
also some restrictions on what net #s each zone can use (which, IMHO, makes
zones really, really pointless), it does not make any sense to me why it
matters if the node is in Zone 1, 2, 3, or 123.  :)

Mike

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