Subj : EchoList, Echo Rules. . . To : Andrea Santos From : mark lewis Date : Tue Apr 17 2001 05:11 am ->> AS> Double, triple origin line shouldn't be happening ->> AS> and that's a configuration issue. ->> errr... when gating from FTN to FTN, there should be ->> multiple origin lines... with each of the top ones ->> being #'d out... AS> Hmmm....news to me. When we ran a private FTN, which AS> was gated, gated to/from where? note above, FTN <-> FTN... FTNs require the origin line in echomail and the origin line is (generally) what one uses(ed) when one is attempting to respond via private means to the originator of a message, no matter what network the message originated in... even if the reply had to hop back thru several networks to reach the originator... AS> there were no double origin lines except when something AS> was missed in configuration. the whole idea is/was to keep the origination of the message as available as possible, rather than hiding or simply throwing it away... AS> At any rate, RIME is a QWK Net not an FTN, yes, i know RIME is "something else" <> ->> FWIW: everything below the tearline ("--- ") is "throwaway" in a ->> manner of speaking... it used to be that bbs' would not display that ->> data to users... these days, a proper tearline keeps newsreaders from ->> quoting back sigs when following up to an article in a newsgroup... AS> Still looks lousy. ;-) if things below the tearline are not displayed or quoted, how can they look lousy? OB-) in the beginning, everything other than content and certain header fields was going to be hidden or not displayed to the users... somewhere, this was lost and as users started learning that there was more information that could be made available, they wanted to see that information... add this to the preponderance of tech types in fidonet... )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .