Hello Nick,

On 09 May 16 22:49, Nick Andre wrote to All:

 NA> Forgive my ignorance, however being late to the thread I am going to
 NA> simply ask that someone either replicate whatever the password problem
 NA> is, step by step, so I can fix it, or allow me to once again rant:

 NA> The password system of D'Bridge has remained largely unchanged since
 NA> 1987... for a reason. It is this and the mail-tossing code that many
 NA> D'Bridge users have grown accustomed to, because it works. Fixing what
 NA> isn't broke is largely frowned upon by the few seasoned D'Bridge
 NA> users.

 NA> If you send an Areafix request to a non-D'Bridge system, and that
 NA> system does not correctly process the request, then once you rule out
 NA> the obvious, it becomes clear that the remote side has a problem. Most
 NA> likely, it is because the remote side is running software that does
 NA> not correctly parse Rescan and List requests on the subject line of
 NA> the Areafix request that D'Bridge generates. To my knowledge, most
 NA> tosser software should handle this correctly such as Gecho, Fastecho,
 NA> F-mail, Tims/Flame etc.

 NA> The "percent commands" is what came later, so it is not
D'Bridge that
 NA> is incompatible with software that expects this, it is the tosser
 NA> software on the receiving end that just assumes that is the only way
 NA> to manipulate Areafix commands.

 NA> I am more than happy to directly troubleshoot anyone's system with
 NA> regards to this or passwords. I will fix the problem personally.

Send a test post to Agoranet - since we have a session password setup and
no packet password - and I'll send the packet back to you if it's marked as
a bad one.

Regards,
Nick

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