Hello mark,

On Fri Nov 24 2017 09:26:06, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

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

Tell that to the maintainers that continue with the long string regex in the
default binkd.conf-dist.

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

I haven't used POTS in decades, and have automatic backups on a regular basis.
Not much worry and no cost to me. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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