Hello Thom!

18 Jan 06 22:38, you wrote to Janis Kracht:

 JK>> distribution point. If Shannon is supposed to be dropping it off,
 JK>> no one has told me that either ;)

 TL> My uplink says he sent it to two nodes, neither one of which could
 TL> upload to your system because the the file was rejected on your end.

 TL> I guess you and they will have to sort of whatever problems exist.

 TL> I no longer have the ability to upload to you directly, and really
 TL> shouldn't have to, if Fidonet worked the way it's suppossed to.

 TL> Seems to me that all I should have to do is hatch the file out via my
 TL> uplink. If it doesn't make it through the system(s), then all I can do
 TL> is point out the problem and wait for those in a position to fix it to
 TL> do so.

File distribution is not always black and white Thom, nor will it ever be.

I provide file feeds for my links, but I do not configure my file processor
to accept files from just anybody and for good reason. Any person hubbing
mail or files will set up this way to protect the integrity of the various
file areas.

Gee, I could setup to allow anyone to hatch files to me in the ELIST file
echo and we could have all sorts of:

A. Duplications

but moreso

B. Bogus elists

The elist FDN is your baby, one would hope you would insist on this type of
protection?

If you switched links, you should have arranged for the proper pathways of
distribution.


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