Hey Alan!

I thought I'd switch back to myself for replies and leave the "Little Mikey"
ones for testing if and when needed.  I think I've confused myself enough for
awhile and I don't seem to be gaining any insight.

 AI> it defaults to type 2+ (4D address support)

Understood.  I believe it was around the turn of the century when I noticed
they were becoming the majority and a few years later that the standardized
pktheader was becoming unsupported by the majority of nodes.  Not sure if the
sysops of those nodes were actually aware of the change in many cases.  If the
only reason for the change was to support 4D addressing it appears not to have
worked as far as creating additional usage of fidonet echomail.  I played
around with it for a number of years and wasn't all that fond of it, other than
it beat offline messaging especially the QWK format.

Anyhow I am done testing for now and am not convinced I achieved anything in
the process.  I am starting to think it might have been better to let sleeping
dogs lie.  Oh well ... live and learn eh?

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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