Subj : FTS-4010 Final Review
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Tue Jun 08 2021 02:46 pm

Good ${greeting_time}, Wilfred!

08 Jun 2021 13:05:14, you wrote to me:

 CN>>>>> Maybe PING:T instead of PING,TRACE ...?
 BF>>>> Or maybe abandon that stupid PING/TRACE idea entirely?
 WvV>>> It's not stupid at all! It's a very useful tool to test netmail
 WvV>>> routing, without bothering sysops, and depend on them sending
 WvV>>> replies. (You take the human factor out of it).
 AV>> You too: the sysops see these messages anyway, and if there are
 AV>> too many, that becomes very annoying.
 WvV> That's by choice. You could configure your system so it doesn't
 WvV> archive the received and sent PING mails, so you would see none
 WvV> at all. So you are annoyed by your own inability to configure
 WvV> your system?

I prefer to see what is going on. And how to configure _my_ system is _my_ choise.

And lots of messages sent to _my_ system could be annoying for _me_.


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