Subj : Perl tossing
To   : Russ Johnson
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Thu Sep 06 2001 03:03 pm

Hi Russ.

04-Sep-01 22:41:52, Russ Johnson wrote to All


 RJ> Next 14 bytes is message header. This includes the destination and
 RJ> origination node numbers

 RJ> What I'm observing is that all the messages being tossed contain
 RJ> my node number as the destination, and my uplinks node number as
 RJ> the origin.

 RJ> Why?

Because they're echomail, and that's how echomail works.

fidonet was originally netmail only, and the echomail system has been
piggybacked ontop of the netmail system.

 RJ> I'm looking at the packet in hex mode, and don't see what it's
 RJ> tossing.

you should.

 RJ> You can see the output I'm getting at http://www.dimstar.net/msg

I can't from here. (easiest way to get a hex dump into a textfile under dos
is to use "list" (hit alt-H alt-p))

 -=> Bye <=-

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