Subj : PATH kludge on exported echomail
To   : mark lewis
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Feb 03 2022 11:14:13

  Re: PATH kludge on exported echomail
  By: mark lewis to Digital Man on Thu Feb 03 2022 07:02 am

 >
 >  On 2022 Feb 02 16:56:08, you wrote to deon:
 >
 >  DM> It depends on what rules you're following. When zones were introduced
 >  DM> to FidoNet and for a long time after, the norm was strip PATH and
 >  DM> SEEN-BY lines when the message crossed a zone boundry (because there
 >  DM> could be ambiguity between 3:632/509 and 2:632/509, since neither the
 >  DM> zone information is not included in the addresses on these lines).
 >
 > seenbys were stripped... paths were not unless maybe when gated between
 > othernets...

SBBSecho stripped the PATHs (and still does) when crossing zone boundaries, except for the ZoneBlind cases.
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