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Skriven 2012-09-27 22:23:42 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: Mail bomb
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Hello Richard,

On Thursday September 27 2012 13:57, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> The nodelist provides the information needed to connect to a
 MvdV>> node that one had no prior contact with.

 MvdV>> After the contact with the sysop is established, one can always
 MvdV>> make arrangements for additional ways of contact, not advertised
 MvdV>> in the nodelist.

 RW> This has always been my understanding as well.

Makes sense, doesn't it?

 RW> Which is why, if crashing a message to a system I don't have
 RW> arrangements with that message is an uncompressed packet,

I do not compress netmail, except when explicitly requested. I do not handle
large amounts of netmail and bytes are cheap these days.

 RW> hence it will hopefully be processed, and either routed
 RW> onward or read by its intended recipient asap.

In the past when bytes when cost was not zero, not everyone would forward mail
for anyone. These days, most will forward anything. I do anyway...

 RW> This is also why, if i find out I'm going to be making regular contact
 RW> with a system I arrange a session pwd if the sysop is amenable.

I do that when I wish to exchange echomail or files or if the other party
requests it.

 RW> That criterion for me is if at least twice during the average month
 RW> I'll be contacting that system I'll endeavor to arrange a session
 RW> password.  While doing so I'll query the sysop as to what
 RW> compression to use for routed mails.

De facto standard compression is zip these days. So i do not ask, I just use
zip. I will notice and act accordingly when it does not work.

 MvdV>> In my case "without prior arrangement" means that it will land
 MvdV>> in the unsecure inbound. Compressed mail landing in the unsecure
 MvdV>> is not processed, hence the MN flag.

 RW> This makes perfect sense to me as well.

makes sense, but it happens occasinally the someone ignore it and sends
unsollicited compressed netmail anyway. It may take up to a month for me to
notice...

 ml>> i do not see it limited to netmail only...

 MvdV>> Netmail is the only kind of mail for which it makes sense to
 MvdV>> send it without making prior arrangements.

 RW> Again agreed.  This was how my mentor in FIdonet when I
 RW> first started explained it to me as well.

I never had a mentor. Most of it, I figured out for myself. I am trained to do
that.  But I also leraned from others of course.


Cheers, Michiel

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