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

agreed...

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

exactly...

 JK> This is how things have been understood in Zone 1
 JK> 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...

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