Re: DIRECT netmail

Wilfred van Velzen <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:00:01 +0100
Newsgroups alt.bbs.mystic
Organization Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Christian,

On 2026-03-12 16:37:42, you wrote to ogg:

 CS> It would also depend on the receiving system being open to receive
 CS> netmails directly and that is going to be very hit or miss

That's a misconfiration, and should be fixed, or the node should atleast be marked Pvt in the nodelist.

 CS> as most systems and sysops don't really go that far into their setup
 CS> these days.

It should be the default for any software to accept crashmail! Because otherwise the system doesn't belong in the nodelist.

And it is my experience that most fidosystems do.


Bye, Wilfred.