Subj : dosxnt
To   : Paul Williams
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Fri Sep 27 2002 12:10 am

  Re: dosxnt
  By: Paul Williams to Rob Swindell on Thu Sep 26 2002 02:34 am

 > >> It should look just like the reply kludge.
 > RS>Not *all* MSGIDs look exactly like what is described in FTP-0009. Here
 > RS>are some examples (parsed from backbone echoes):
 > 8<snip>8
 > 
 >  Those however are all from internet based msgs and are kinda right and
 > kinda wrong at the same time. They're right in that the spec says that
 > the format is MSGID: <originating addy> <crc> and in the case of the net
 > the originating addy is quite a bit different than a fido addy.

Actually FTSC-0009 doesn't mention anything about CRCs. It just says "serialno"
with the implementor to decide exactly what that is.

 >  Oddly enough you might want to add and rescan the FTSC_PUBLIC echo as
 > msgid generation is a current topic.

I already get that echo and have been reading the msgid subject.

 >  On another note, it's nice to see that there's still someone out there
 > who's spending time still working on programs for fido and bbs'ing in
 > general.
 > 
 >  Thanks for sticking in there all this time. :>

It's still fun (for me). :-)

 >  Just one thing though.... Who's sick idea were the dos menu screens?? <G>

I don't remember. I think it was just an example command shell idea. Other
sysops have created DOS and Unix emulation command shells too.

 >  I thought I'd screwed things up for sure when I tried that one and
 > couldn't get the other menus back. Heck I deleted and reinstalled the
 > whole mess twice!

Really?!? That's not something to brag about! :-)

                                                 digital man

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