On 07/05/97, Carey Bloodworth wrote:
CB> Don't worry about attachments.  They don't make it through fidonet
CB> echo mail.  The only people that would have been bothered is those on
CB> your board and that is assuming the attachment wasn't rejected outright
CB> by the BBS because it was a networked echo instead of local.
Well, I run this BBS, and according to the logs, it went out.  I can only 
ope
other systems kill it.  Depends on the BBS software settings whether
attachments get imported into msg. bases - at least here, it does.
CB> I should also point out that attachments don't work very well with
CB> net-mail, either....  So even if you had posted it in the net-mail
CB> conference, it probably would have never left the board anyway.
Yes, they do!  I send chess files all the time attached to netmail msgs.
That's why Front Door, Intermail, etc. have files-to and files-for in their
route control files.
Best regards,
Doug
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