Mark,

ML>that's the way it is supposed to work but many don't understand these things
ML>and ignorantly break the system because they don't know... others break the
ML>system on purpose because they can... either way, it either works or it is
ML>broken because of someone specifically breaking it...

  One of the differences with GT Power BBS software and the way it handled
network echomail or netmail (when the network was at its peak years ago),
was that certain systems could "sponsor" an echo...similar to
"moderating" an echo in FIDONet.

  Network nodes would request the echo by an ID number, such as E00/103,
via netmail from their hub (similar to the way an Areafix is done in
FIDONet), then would set up their ROUTING.BBS file to get it from their
hub, if they had it.

  But, unlike FIDONet, all messages for the echo, originating on a BBS
other than the system sponsoring it, would go to the sponsoring system
FIRST. That way, the moderator/echo sponsor, could weed out any messages
not considered conducive to the echo (i.e. spam), and with various
utilities, have those messages deleted. All other messages would then echo
out to the rest of the network.

  With FIDONet, systems that are linked to the echo, see posts from other
downlinks...sometimes before they get to the sponsoring/moderating
system...and before they are dealt with by a moderator. I've wondered
though, that even with a feed cut, would an offending poster try another
way to get to the echo??

Daryl

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