Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit SABOTAGE
  By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Fri Oct 15 2004 05:26 pm

 >  RS> So there was only one user of the "software in
question", and now
 >  RS> they're gone?
 > 
 > No.  Only one who caught the problem and pointed it out.  He wanted SBBS to 
 > banned for usage within Fido.  I thought he presented a good arguement for i

Who did? Where?

 > As for other users of the "software in question" perhaps
they see it as a
 > natural filter?  Beats me all to heck.

Or more probably, they just don't exist, but this "softare in
question" doesn't
exist.

 >  RS> That's not a very plausible assumption. If such software really
 >  RS> exists, I'm
 >  RS> sure someone, somewhere, is still using it.
 > 
 > Right.  I am sure if you are truly interested you could find them.
 
Sure. But you'll have to name the software first.

 >  RS> Well certainly there would be old messages in the Fido archives to
 >  RS> prove your
 >  RS> assertion then. In what echo were these claims made?
 > 
 > He noticed the anomolous behavior in the LINUX echo

Did "he" mention it the LINUX echo? I can find no reference in that echo to
this subject matter.

 > but the controversy real
 > happened in a regional echo which requires that you be a member of that
 > particular region to have access to. 

Oh well, I guess I'll have to take your word for it then.

 > There was another sysop in the region
 > used the Linux version of SBBS whose software inadvertently
"spammed" anothe
 > regional echo not unlike what was recently witnessed in BINKD and NEW_NODELI
 > (ones I noticed), and perhaps a few others.  Given that the messages were ol
 > it shouldn't be too surprising that nobody's dupe checkers caught it.

Sounds like a sysop goof-up. Certainly not related to this discussion of
MSGID's at all.

 >  RS> If such software actually does exist that deletes messages based on
 >  RS> what you're
 >  RS> describing, *that* would be the anomalous behavior. I think this
 >  RS> "software in
 >  RS> question" is either a figment of your imagination or a faulty
 >  RS> recollection.
 > 
 > Whatever.  Believe what you want.  I know better.  I am satisfied that every
 > concerned tried their best to correct the problem.  Funny that my methodolog
 > was the only one that caught your attention.  :-)

You seem to want to bring it up on any possible occasion and asserting false
(or at least unsupported) allegations. I have no idea what your motivation is,
but unless you can start naming programs that in actual *fact* have a problem
with the Synchronet generated MSGID's, I'm done with you.

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