Subj : Re: New BBS in the works.
To   : bbsing
From : Vk3jed
Date : Fri Dec 17 2021 07:28 pm

-=> On 01-05-21 21:06, bbsing wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 bb> When you say crosspost, what is that?

Messages get posted to the wrong area.  This happens if the corruption happens
between new messages getting posted and them getting scanned for forwarding to
other BBSs.  Because the headers are all screwed up, they get sent to the wrong
echo.

 bb> I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'm seeing
 bb> errors on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using multimail
 bb> 0.52, and terminate 5.0's mail reader. Both systems behave differently.


 bb> Multimail shows the message count for an area, but the area index has
 bb> many messages that have error 0 message for the message line.

 bb> In Terminate's (old dos program) the messages from field looks missing
 bb> and the messages body runs through the from, and subject. Each message
 bb> looks to contain several messages.

 bb> Things just looked mangled.

Yep, seen that too. :)


.... Ban the bomb.  Save the world for conventional warfare.
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