On 2017 Jun 26 21:44:12, you wrote to me:

 WV>>> Thanks for getting involved to fix this!

 ml>> still waiting on word back... hopefully the operator will wake up
 ml>> soon...

 WV> Are we talking about 1:123/0 here?

no... /10... i just polled and got the same "rerror: unsecured session not
allowed" response... the clock is ticking ;)

 ml>> sad that there aren't any netmail zonegates for his other networks so
 ml>> that one could send netmail through them to his system... zonegates
 ml>> were a GoodThing... granted, they were used for fidonet zones in
 ml>> the beginning but the concept works and worked great for othernets,
 ml>> too... sure, some of them may not want contact from "fidonet" but
 ml>> we're only talking about netmail here, not echos... route or deliver
 ml>> direct to the zonegate and let them handle delivery on the other side
 ml>> based on their network ops... it is crazy to have to join an othernet
 ml>> just to be able to let someone know of a problem on their system...
 ml>> that's playing othernet roulette just trying to find one that they
 ml>> may be active on...

 WV> I don't see how that would have helped here. I couldn't deliver crash
 WV> mail to this node (as a node of either net), because he disabled
 WV> unsecure sessions. So I tried a routed netmail in fidonet, guessing he
 WV> would have a secure connection setup with his Host.

right but routed netmail via one of his other nets might very well work...
especially if there's not a connection made to his NC who was just placed a few
months ago and may still be trying to get connections with all his nodes since
the previous NC stepped down pretty quickly...

)\/(ark

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