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

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

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

 CA> I guess I always knew that from looking at the file formats
 CA> and source code for this OLR I use. :-\

> this is true >

 CA> We've discussed the lack of conformity to 'fido standards'
 CA> many many times and it just isn't going to happen in my
 CA> lifetime if ever.

actually, it's been done and quite some time ago... point systems are
offline users that transport FTN mail in FTN format and (generally) use FTN
compliant mail handlers and readers -=B-)

zone 2 has pointlist managers to handle all the point system entries they
have... i haven't gotten a pointlist (like a fidonet nodelist) in quite
some time but i understand that there are several thousands of points
listed...

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