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echo: fidonews
to: NICK ANDRE
from: KURT WEISKE
date: 2019-11-09 07:32:00
subject: Re: IC and 3 symbols in m

-=> Nick Andre wrote to Tommi Koivula <=-

 NA> When you send routed Netmail, you are at the mercy of the systems the
 NA> message is being routed through. The operators of each system usually
 NA> do the best they can to make sure shit works, but ***Sometimes in life
 NA> Shit Happens***

 NA> There is a nifty high-tech concept called "Crash" which allows you to
 NA> send a Netmail without all of this unreliable horse and buggy routing
 NA> nonsense.

I can go both ways on crash versus routing. Routing netmail works, for the 
most part, and I'm intrigued by the fact that it works at all. Back in the 
dial-up days, it was the only viable means to get netmail from here to there 
without breaking the bank.

To your point, I set most mail to crash nowadays, since most destinations 
are at most one binkp hop away. Crashing mail does take some of the fun out 
of it, though.


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