-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Nancy Backus on 03-27-04  02:33 <=-

 ML>> yes, the "old" To: UUCP kludge... its still needed in the
 ML>> cases of the destination address being too long to fit in
 ML>> the FTN netmail To: field...
 NB>> Which using your gate looks like it might do.
 ML> yup...
 NB>> IIRC, one puts UUCP as the To: and then puts the actual addy
 NB>> on the first line.  Was/is there any special punctuation before
 NB>> or around the addy?
 ML> nope... just a leading TO: and a blank line after the addresses... one
 ML> TO: name{at}address per line...
 
Oh, ok.  So one could send to multiple recipients, hunh?  Don't think I
ever tried that.

 NB>> Oh, I realized that I have email addresses from just about
 NB>> every bbs I telnet to, as they have their own access to the
 NB>> internet.  I haven't used those, though, as just getting to
 NB>> them means that I have access to my main email addy from my
 NB>> ISP, through which I telnet... :)

 ML> true.... however, there are very low cost ISPs that don't provide
 ML> anything other than the connection... you have to provide your own
 ML> everything else... 

Ah.  Mine's a full service one, for what used to be a very low cost, but
now is merely mostly reasonable...   (They've raised it along the
way, but still much less expensive than most of the others.)

 ML> using my gateway works with /any/ fidonet system that's operational
 ML> and has a valid routing path to it...
 
 NB>> Of course the other problem with that* BBS is that he
 NB>> doesn't have any offline mail door so anything HAS to be done
 NB>> online there... :(

 ML> i know that feeling... i had to remove the offline mail doors on my
 ML> system because they were (and still are) incompatible with the version
 ML> of the BBS software that i'm running...

Oh.  That explains why offline wasn't working when I finally did* manage
to get online to your bbs!  Ummmm.... then how does getting email thru
your gate work?  I'm guessing that if I use the net/node numbers from
chowda that it will arrive there in my netmail, and thus in my packet to
deal with offline (and in BW)?  But to do it on your bbs, I'd need to do
it all online?

Any likelihood that you'll be able to get offline mail doors working
with your bbs software eventually?

ttyl          neb

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