Subj : EchoList, Echo Rules. . .
To   : Todd Cochrane
From : Herbert Bushong
Date : Sat Apr 14 2001 04:15 am

::> Rime/Relaynet gates files thru here and we have seen some weird packets
::> delivered by his system... Familynet also gates here but I have not
::> seen any problems related to familynet and origin lines...

::> Why the origin lines get hammered sometimes is beyond my expertise. I

It's not just Rime Todd; the echoes in question are gated between Fido, 
Intelec, Rime, and I believe Racenet (not sure of the last without looking it 
up). I'm intimately familiar with the gating software as I wrote it :)
The problem occurs whenever a message not posted to a system that directly 
connects to your system, comes through your system. 
-The gating software alters the original origin line so the information is 
  still there but the line won't get recognized as an origin line, and a new 
  origin from the gating system will get added. 
-It strips certain other control lines so that they won't interfer with the
  distribution on the new network. The gating system adds the necessary new
  control lines.

Your system, and your system only, proceeds to alter the new origin line of 
the gating system, and append the origin line of your system. It's as though 
your system were gating the message in a similar manner. 

As I told you in netmail though, it's not a big deal. Mail is moved and 
that's what's important. Since it wasn't interfering with that, I can live 
with it (as Moderator of one of the echoes). 

I posted this to indicate this particular bit should not be used as fuel for 
the flame war that is taking place here in the echo.  

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