On 2019 Mar 10 07:41:00, you wrote to Joacim Melin:

 DC> I agree with this completely.  I was a Fidonet sysop back in the
 DC> early 90's, and left in 96 when I had to move and the internet was
 DC> taking over anyway.  Recently came back, and although I certainly
 DC> remembered the basics of how Fido works, I had some minor trouble
 DC> contacting my prospective new NC because of simple things like the
 DC> proper addressing syntax of a Netmail.  Is it
 DC> "first.last@", or is it "first last@", or.... ?

to be fair, this is specifically related to the software being used... most
traditional FTN software has separate name and address fields...

  To: some user          Addr: 1:0/0

sometimes that "Addr:" field is not even labeled... it is just another field to
be filled in manually or automatically after the software has done a nodelist
lookup on the name in the "To:" field... it should also be noted that that
traditional FTN software only does FTN addressing and doesn't have to parse and
analyze the target address to determine if it is FTN, email, QWK or some other
supported-by-that-software private system-to-system mail format...

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Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... I don't like making plans because then the word "premeditated" gets used.
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