Hi Michiel!

Wednesday July 19 2006, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 MV>>> If you do not accept mail from at least every nodelisted system,
 MV>>> you should be listed as a private node or a point.

 VD>> I _accept_ netmail from any (not only nodelisted systems), but I
 VD>> _read_ it not every time. However my robot (FTRACK) alerting me about
 VD>> receive unpassword netmail and analise it (if this netmail from
 VD>> elections process), but I read it not every day.

 MV> So mail to your points coming in from an unsecure link is not
 MV> automatically forwarded?

Now I have no points, but letters to my downlinks from unprotecting inbound
are holding before manual accepting.

 VD>>>> At any case easy send mail by establishing password link (by
 VD>>>> route) with reliable official system (hub)

 MV>>> What if I do not want your hub to read the mail?

 MV>>> Besides, I do not have a password with your hub either. What if
 MV>>> he does the same? I can not have a password with every host and
 MV>>> hub in FidoNet.

 VD>> Sending netmail by unprotecting link your receiver can't sure that
 VD>> this netmail sending from you and it have not a false.

 MV> So what? FidoNet is a public network and an open system. You can never be
 MV> sure that a routed netmail is authentic even if it comes in via a link
 MV> that is secure on the last leg. To ensure that a netmail is authentic you
 MV> need something above and beyond FidoNet. LSuch as a digital signature.

So any can send netmail through our node as this netmail "from
you"? And echomail too?

Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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