Subj : May the Guilty Party Please Rise
To   : Michael Grant
From : David Calafrancesco
Date : Sun Apr 29 2001 06:43 pm

Michael Grant wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

DC>  MG> Dale Ross and DavidC say they have a problem with messages with no
DC>  MG> MSGID, because a PX system who's a downlink of Dale's regurgitates
DC>  MG> those messages with /his/ system's node number in the MSGID.
DC>  MG> Meanwhile the vast majority of systems can pass messages with no
DC>  MG> MSGID without doing this.  
DC> 
DC> The correct path is 273/416 2604/104 140/1. It is specifically not
DC> a downl
DC> of Dale's or else nobody else in the zone would be seeing the
DC> problems as 
DC> is conscientious enough to clean the regurgitated traffic from the
DC> stream.
DC> Would that 273/416 or he two nodes between it and the backbone
DC> would do th
DC> same. 

 MG> The whole point was, you're blaming the messages, when it's not the
 MG> messages that are at fault, but a sysop's mis-configuration. 

 MG> Given what you post Dale would do, "cleaning" those messages from
 MG> the mail, how can you be absolutely certain something else that
 MG> might be a legitimate message won't get "cleaned" along with them?

 MG> The Soviet Union used to "clean" it's mail once, too...

Are you actually reading what you write? Sheesh... 

You won't stay focused on the discussion, you're mind is made up and it doesn't 
matter what anyone says or proves... it just doesn't fucking matter. 

Enjoy your ignorance. You can find someone else to play with. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

.... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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