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echo: dbridge
to: Nick Andre
from: Rob Swindell
date: 2016-05-29 18:42:36
subject: Re: I`m confused

Re: Re: I'm confused
  By: Nick Andre to Rob Swindell on Sun May 29 2016 10:58 am

 > On 28 May 16  13:13:13, Rob Swindell said the following to Nick Andre:
 >
 >  > Can someone please clarify, in one or two sentences, what the apparent
 >  > problem is with passwords and where the supposed bug lines herein?
 >
 > RS> It appears that D'Bridge is adding passwords to outbound FTN packets
 > RS> when t sysop using D'Bridge has not explicity configured it to do so.
 >
 > Not a bug. DB is designed this way, and the Packet Password screen overrides
 > the password inserted.

Oh, then you should point the DB sysops to the documentation that says that.
There's been a lot of confusion and finger-pointing over this
"non-bug". It's
sounds like an incorrect "design" to me, but that's just my opinion.

                                            digital man

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