Subj : Netmail Zonegate how?
To   : Bob Seaborn
From : Douglas Connor
Date : Mon Nov 24 2003 07:34 pm

Hello Bob!

24 Nov 03 09:00, Bob Seaborn wrote to Douglas Connor:

 BS> Douglas,

 >>BS>       Why so?
 >> If you look in the othernets echo there is a list of
 >> othernets most every zone number is duped by more than one
 >> network.
 >>
 >> Why is there even such a line in your bofaq.txt if
 >> everyone is so dead set against such a thing accuring??
 >>

 BS>       It's referencing echomail being gated, not netmail.
I guess I need to clean my glasses:)
Could have sworn It meant that if a system gated echomail
they should gate netmail Too.(or they usualy gate netmail too.)

 BS>       Every week I get someone trying to drop off mail here destined
 BS> for some zone 411 system, also identifying themselves as a z411 node,
 BS> and since my system knows nothing about any zone other than z1 through
 BS> z6, not ony does this treaffic go nowhere, it's unreturnable.
 BS> Obviously since it's not Fidonet traffic, Fidonet policy doesn't apply
 BS> to it, so I simply nuke it manually.
Its not Fidonet netmail, and there is no return address.
even the usps would loose it somewhere for those reasons.

And I can not see anyone being required to handle netmail
from a net they dont carry.
but pathline routing would be impossible where a gate existed.


Douglas

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