Hi Mark,

>> I do have a serious disagreement with Ward's interpretation
>> of some parts of policy4.  As others have noted, nowhere does
>> it say that each node in Fidonet must agree to accept crash
>> netmail from any other node, thereby giving up the right to
>> control how one's own system is used.

> agreed...

Anyone who says otherwise is putting words into policy that are not there.

>> What P4 says is that nodes must be available to 'accept mail'
>> during ZMH. It doesn't state what the 'flavor' of that mail
>> must be (crash, direct, routed, etc.).

> exactly...

:)

>> This is how things have been understood in Zone 1
>> since I first joined Fidonet.

> its been that way since /i/ cast a vote for the node i carried _for_ Policy
> 4.07 back in 1989...

Yep...

Take care,
Janis

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