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echo: fidonews
to: MARK LEWIS
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2019-03-24 08:21:00
subject: Re: Fidonet = one unizon

-=> On 03-23-19 10:57, mark lewis wrote to Dan Cross <=-

 ml> how is a user supposed to be able to respond to an echomail message via
 ml> netmail if they cannot see the node number of the user they are
 ml> responding to?? netmail is not limited to sysops even though a lot of

As long as either the user can see the node address, or the system can insert
it correctly (e.g. when doing a reply via netmail) it'll work.

 ml> sysops didn't allow their users access to netmail back in the day...
 ml> for many, it was limited because of not understanding routing and thus
 ml> not wanting to incur more cost for their system's connections to other
 ml> systems over POTS...

I always allowed users routed netmail that went with the nightly mail polls. 
Netmail routing isn't exactly rocket science. :)


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