Hi Jeff,

> I would have to echo Mark's questions. I don't consider there
> to be any actual privacy in routed netmail. So if I am sending a netmail
> that I need or desire to remain confidential I either need to send it
> direct (Which you are preventing) or via email. For those that do not
> have or choose not to use email you leave them with no other options.

True.. I always update my echos with email.. I would never route it via
fidonet netmail, since what's the point?  The whole idea of the echolist is
to maintain a password protected record in the database.  Now I know my
links to Thom would be "safe" but do others enjoy that security?

> It would seem to me that if you are providing a service that involves
> communication. You would make your service available to as many people as
> possible using as many forms of communication that are possible. Yet you
> choose to refuse communication via one of the primary forms of communication
> in Fidonet. That being direct netmail.

Yes. I figure the best fix right now is to use my phone number and such in
the listing, then the next step is to figure out a way to route all that
traffic to Thom.. at this point I haven't had time to look at the setup
with BBBS to see if it will be easy or a pia.  If it's a pia, I figure to
let Thom know..

I am hoping this is a temporary fix though.. If Thom can't eventually be
contacted via fidonet, that's pretty bad to me.

Take care,
Janis

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