Subj : Compression question
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Mon Jul 21 2003 09:00 pm

Hi Bo,

 PK> Note that Squish provides specific methods of handling
 PK> Netmail and/or Echomail, or both. Unless something is broken in the
 PK> version you are using.

 BS> Okey, i haven't seen them in the documentation, would 
 BS> you be kind to show them?

Its really a combination of using the Squish control parameters in the 
appropriate way. Most people seem to forget that the commandline parameters 
provide subtle control, and yet it is possible to use them in conjunction with 
a control file that allows very selective processing, as long as thats what you 
want to do. Overall, you may need to perform multiple passes to do things 
exactly as you want. 

In addition, you can use the SEND and ROUTE commands to process traffic for a 
specific set of nodes, and then the output of those commands is NOT included in 
any other ROUTE statement processing that encompass those nodes within a global 
statement (EG 4:ALL). However note that this ALL must happen within ONE Squish 
operation to work this way.


 BS>> Scott must have forgotten that Echomail is _not_ routable.

 PK> Of course Echomail can be routed (I have done it myself, once by
 PK> accident and once with the intermediate nodes permission). EG: I have
 PK> an Echo I pack FOR a node, however I ROUTE what I pack for that node
 PK> via another node, IE I ROUTE the packed mail.

 BS> Nearly zero nodes allows echomail routing!

Very true, few nodes will permit it, but it can certainly be done


 JS>> I may be not remembering something, I haven't had to change
 JS>> things here in years. There's something funky about zonegating, I
 JS>> remember that much.

 BS>> It doesn't work in the Unix version, i've tried to fix it but i
 BS>> gave up!

 PK> What doesn't work about Zonegating (with unix), or more specficaly,
 PK> what part of Zonegating is not working?

 BS> The gateroute thing, it created a new message, whitch 
 BS> it marked sent, but it forgot to mark the original 
 BS> message sent too, to it keeps sending that message...

Hold on, Zonegating and GateRouting are 2 quite different things, are you 
perhaps trying to mix them? Also note that "A ZoneGate" is a specific system, 
but "ZoneGating" is the act of moving traffic between Zones. The first is a 
Nodelisted system, whereas anyone can perform the second. In brief - 

GateRouting was primarily used for non-3D aware systems where the Zone info was 
not able to be understood and handled correctly. Traffic could be routed via a 
Zonegate that ensured the Zone detail was handled correctly between such 
systems. Are you SURE you really need to use GateRoute these days, its highly 
unusual to find someone using code that is not 3D aware these days... I have 
never had to use GateRoute so I can't be sure, but it sounds like you may be 
generating your 2D output back into a 3D area and creating Dups as a result.

Zonegating is simply used to trim Seen-by's for Echomail exporting to another 
Zone, where Seen-by's can be duplicated and does not necessarily relate to 
using "official" Zonegates at all. ZoneGating reduces message sizes as well.

Cheers...........pk.


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