26 Apr 08 22:44, Richard Webb wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> RUles on zmh would cover I think.  AS the capability is advertised
 RW>> in the nodelist by a phone number in the appropriate field I'd
 RW>> venture to guess that during zmh a system should be reachable by it.

 >> Since P4 is so ancient and the ZC has made policy that circumvents a
 >> lot of it, ZMH won't help you. I once had a policy complaint filed
 >> against me because I passworded a node from connecting here. Both
 >> the RC10 and the ZC1 decided in my favor upon appeal by the
 >> complainant, but the ZC2, then acting as the IC, reversed their
 >> decisions and upheld the complaint. The case was then presented
 >> before the ZCC and they reversed the IC's decison. This resulted in
 >> the eventual termination of that IC and policy went down hill from
 >> there.

 RW> Had to do that once to a guy back in my hubbing days in southeastern
 RW> Iowa. A kid ran a bbs, was getting echomail.  He wouldn't kick in his
 RW> share of cost recovery though so I unlinked him.  I refused to route
 RW> his netmail even.

I opted out of the CR program in net202 when I got my internet dialup
link. The NC and my hub weren't very happy about that.

 RW> NOw remember I was not a nc or anything, just a local hub.

 RW> I let others in my locale within my cost recovery plan that I fed
 RW> know that I wasn't feeding the kid echomail and that nobody else
 RW> should feed him. Kid dropped fidonet and became a point. Swore up and
 RW> down he wasn't using echomail on his bbs, but then a friend of mine
 RW> proved differently.  I had suspicions anyway when some of the echoes
 RW> he was carrying got linked to another system that formerly didn't
 RW> carry them.

His boss node shouldn't have allowed that kid to use him like that.

 RW> FEllow feeding the kid wouldn't not feed the kid echomail but went to
 RW> another source for it.  YET he still wanted to route netmail within
 RW> our net through me instead of call the nc or the system direct. so I
 RW> changed his session and packet passwords .

As a point, he had no right to file a PC anyway.

 RW> DIfference is, he never filed a policy complaint.  HE remained part
 RW> of homenet, a qwk based network and rdopped fido soon thereafter .

Whatever floated his boat.

PS got your netmail drop. I didn't notice it until I opened Argus and
there was a connect from you. I modified my mail tosser's batch file to
look for pkts and zips in Argus inbound, move them to a secure folder in
Irex and process them in the Irex inbound.

                R\%/itt



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