Subj : EchoMail vs. Posting to
To   : Kaelon
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue May 03 2022 09:47:59

  Re: EchoMail vs. Posting to
  By: Kaelon to All on Tue May 03 2022 08:25 am

 Ka> I just noticed that when I receive notices on a BBS about some of the
 Ka> posts made to me (on FSX, in particular) appear as "Soandso has sent an
 Ka> EchoMail to you on FSX.GEN," while others will appear as "Soandso has
 Ka> posted to you on NET.General." 

 Ka> What's the difference between the two? Aren't they both public posts to a
 Ka> networked message base?

Is that on a Synchronet BBS?  The difference may be that one network is a FTN network (which would probably be FSXNet) and the other might be a QWK-networked message network.

For Synchronet, it used to be that it would only notify you of new replies on FTN-networked message boards (the notifications would come from its sbbsecho utility), but there was a request from someone to have Synchronet give you similar notices for QWK-networked message areas, and Digital Man (author of Synchronet) added that.

Nightfox
--- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32
 * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)

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