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echo: fidonews
to: MARK LEWIS
from: DAN CLOUGH
date: 2021-02-13 20:17:00
subject: Re: Who are you?

-=> mark lewis wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 DC> Nice.  So I wonder why he's posting from an apparent address of
 DC> 1:3603/9999 ?

 DC> Misconfiguration, or attempted misdirection?

 ml> net3603 used to cover the tampa area... the entire state of
 ml> florida is now covered by one net, net135...

 ml> IIRC, david is a returning operator and he appears to have set up
 ml> using the old net and temporary node number used for applying for
 ml> a node... i would guess that he configured his system using the
 ml> temp number and just hasn't gone back to change everything to use
 ml> his actual assigned address... a simple oversight... probably
 ml> encumbered by using a configuration script or similar tool when
 ml> configuring fidonet for his system...

All right, you are probably correct.

He also should properly configure his system to use real names in Fido 
echos.  But I guess that isn't a thing, any more.



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