Subj : Re: Female Spam is a virus
To   : Stewart Honsberger
From : Sean Rima
Date : Fri Feb 15 2002 12:46 pm

Stewart Honsberger was alleged to have said to Sean Rima
 something about Female Spam is a virus


 SH> are
 SH>  ST>> gateways...
 SH>
 SH>  SR> No, Shannon they are no. BW is not converting to another network.
 SH>  SR> Nothing in the BW packet is converted to the protocols of any other
 SH>  SR> network.
 SH>
 SH> Actually, it is. Messages are converted into the BlueWave format where
 SH> they can
 SH> be manipulated and even stored on a user's machine.
 SH>
 SH> In order to retreive [BlueWave/QWK/NNTP] mail, one must connect to the
 SH> proper
 SH> daemon with the correct client software.
 SH>
 SH> In all cases, the mail is converted from its native format to a format
 SH> more
 SH> suited to transport to a client who will then retreive (as you said
 SH> below) a
 SH> 'snapshot' of the message bases.
 SH>
 SH> NNTP is covered by RFCs. BlueWave has governing documents known under a
 SH> different name - data format specifications. (I might even still have
 SH> them in
 SH> my home directory somewhere). QWK is covered by similar documents.
 SH>
 SH>  SR> If you say, which I never have, the BW is converting protocols,
 SH> then so
 SH>  SR> is any Mail reader.
 SH>
 SH> That's getting into picking nits, but if you really want to get into it,
 SH> yes;
 SH> every mail processor is converting the messages from one format to
 SH> another. I'm
 SH> not aware of any system that stores messages in the PKT2+ format.
 SH> Instead, they
 SH> convert them to Hudson, JAM, Squish, SQL, or any number of others (some
 SH> open,
 SH> some proprietary).
 SH>

No it is not getting into picking NITS. I never once brought the subject of 
QWK, Bluewave etc up, that was others. My point is that when changed to NNTP a 
lot of the original format is lost and I have a specific rule against access 
via NNTP.

Sean

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