Re: DIRECT netmail

Gabe Harriman <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:30:02 -0500
Newsgroups alt.bbs.mystic
Organization Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12 Mar 2026, ogg said the following...

 og> I had a scenario recently where a sysop was looking to get his fidonet
 og> number. He used me as a hub to forward a netmail to my hub.  He was a
 og> little annoying in trying to poll me so I ended up blocking him not
 og> knowing what he was up to.  Turns out, he contacted me through another


That was me, sorry about that!  I confused the whole net/region/zone thing on my first read-thru of policy4.  That document is a little... obtuse.

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