Subj : Re: Female Spam is a virus To : Dale Ross From : Sean Rima Date : Fri Feb 15 2002 04:03 pm Dale Ross was alleged to have written to Sean Rima > SHANNON TALLEY was alleged to have said to SEAN RIMA > something about Female Spam is a virus >> Sean, >> >> What type of downloading protocal should BBS's use to be deemed worthy >> of being a BBS.. Is Xmodem permitted? Zmodem? Ymodem-G? Kermit? Those >> are all transport protocals.. >> >> Sean, I admire you for sticking by your guns, but you are wrong.. >> > I am not talking about the downloading of messages, I am saying that when an >echomail is presented to a NNTP reader it is ina different format than what is > prsented to say a Bluewave reader. DR> Of course it is and a message is present in a different format when DR> done is QWK Vs BlueWave and it is presented in a different format when DR> you use the BBS viewer/editor to read the messages and it is presented DR> in a different format when you use HTTP. The problem with NNTP is that I can download it say via soupgate, irex, TXmail whatever, I read them read them here after processing them because it seems to be a good idea to grab mail via NNTP. Okay so far, but a link of mine, sees this wonderfull new echo and links into it and by mistake he is already linked into his Boss which creates a circle. >What concerns me is that by allowing a NNTP gatem, the original message info i > lost, then someone could gate the echos from your NNTP server and send them > onwards, where would it end, DR> No it is not lost if you use good software. How is it not, I send out a message with a certain message ID. on gating that message ID is altered. Sean -- BBS and Fidonet News Portal at http://www.tcob1.net Offering feeds for Fidonet, Adventurenet, and many other nets See http://www.tcob1.net for more details ICQ: 679813 Linux User: 231986 TCOB1 BBS: 095 43852 Yahoo: tcob_1 ... Who needs spam when you've got posters like us --- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag-3 * Origin: TCOB1 The home of LinuxNet (2:263/950) .