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echo: binkd
to: NICHOLAS BOEL
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2017-11-24 09:31:00
subject: Not launching the echomai

 On 2017 Nov 23 22:59:34, you wrote to me:

 ml>> other than them being renamed by the toss when it figures out they're
 ml>> not the proper format... the extension would be lost at that point...
 ml>> other than, hopefully, the tosser logs ;)

 NB> Seems as though binkd ASSumes other tossers know how to create bundles
 NB> with the proper extensions.


binkd doesn't care about the files' extensions, really... if i send
"my_land.map" to you, binkd will trigger a mail toss because the .map extension
matches the allowed .ma? so what i'm saying is that you won't find my_land.map
in your inbound because your tosser would have renamed it to my_land.bad... to
further clarify, the long string regexes that some use are too relaxed... they
need to be more strict...

don't be so FTN centric when thinking about these things... i've had more than
one set of files mangled in exactly this manner and that was long before binkd
was even a gleam in its creator's eye... the mangling i experianced was due to
some files being named the same except for the extension... when the tosser
renamed the second one to .bad, it overwrote the first one... it took a week or
two to figure out what was happening with that file set and why... t'was a
little on the expensive side of the POTS bill, too...


)\/(ark

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