Subj : Packet passwords
To   : mark lewis
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Sat May 28 2016 02:12 pm

On Sat May-28-2016 10:37, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Nicholas Boel:


 ml> 28 May 16 07:45, you wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RN>> I don't blame you for doing that, but I'd like to know what happened.
 RN>> I want to know if my mailer is doing that, but I don't think it is.
 RN>> Joe and I tested this by removing the session password and so
 RN>> everything began working again.  Once a session password in placed,
 RN>> however, the problem begins anew.  I have never had a packet password
 RN>> for him and many others, whom, I might add, do not have this problem.

 NB> It wouldn't be your mailer doing that. It would be the editor or
 NB> tosser stuffing the password into the echomail header. The mailer
 NB> itself doesn't modify the contents of echomail/netmail.

 ml> it can't be the editor as they do not do anything with PKTs...
 ml> tossers assemble and disassemble PKTs while mailers send and
 ml> receive them ;)

On that note, I have yet to encounter an editor that would stuff a packet 
password into a message and I've been at this since the late 80s before 
becoming a node in '91.  I switched my config to Detailed so I could see if a 
system was presenting a packet password when connecting here.  To date, it has 
only happened with SBBSecho, and that was within the last 3 months.  The node I 
have a packet password with is also presented.


Regards,

Roger 
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