JD>> 3) How does the "private message" work?

 CA> There are no private messages within FIDO echos. I've often
 CA> wondered why OLRs even make the attempt to mark messages as
 CA> 'private'.

because QWK-type OLRs came to us from the RIME/PCRelay network which
did/does have private messages in conferences... fido stuffs have been
bastardized and forcefitted into that format instead of having software
conformant to fido's needs and specs...

)\/(ark