Subj : Netmail Zonegate how?
To   : Douglas Connor
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Mon Nov 24 2003 08:44 pm

 >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.)

      Not necessarily.

 >
 >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.

      Oh, I know who's dropping it off here, yet despite repeated requests
that they stop, it continues to arrive, just in time to be deleted.  :)

 >
 > 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.

      Netmail's VIA kludges don't get stripped when zonegating, echomail's
path and seenby kludges do get stripped (or are supposed to).





                       .....Bob

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