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    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to mark lewis on Sat Jun 29 12:03:19 2019
    mark lewis wrote to Alexey Vissarionov <=-

    As an aside to the main subject of this thread:

    obviously you've not tried to get the attention of some Mystic BBS operators who are running with a default binkp server setting requiring secure mailer sessions...

    I recently discovered MBSE does that by default too. I specifically have to run MBSE's mailer twice each mail run: once to toss the secure, the second
    to toss the insecure. Much to my surprise and dismay, I had over 100
    netmails I never knew existed come flooding into my system. Suffice to say that I made sure that my BBS takes in -all- mail now and lets me decide to
    what to do with it.

    Over in Micronet, if we have problems with a system, we attempt three times
    to contact them. I'll email and voice call the sysop personally. No
    response? They get dropped from the network without notice. Now this
    pattern of behavior on my part is codified in the network policy so they
    know what they're getting into but thankfully, in over 19 years, we've only
    had a handful of nodes disappear like that.

    But it is a problem these days with the multi-link topology and the general lack of care from newer sysops about actually following common sense and courtesy when obtaining a Fidonet feed.

    The more something changes, the more it stays the same.

    Later,
    Sean


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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Sean Dennis on Sun Jun 30 04:12:17 2019
    Hello Sean!

    29 Jun 19 12:03, you wrote to mark lewis:

    obviously you've not tried to get the attention of some Mystic
    BBS operators who are running with a default binkp server setting
    requiring secure mailer sessions...

    I recently discovered MBSE does that by default too. I specifically
    have to run MBSE's mailer twice each mail run: once to toss the
    secure, the second to toss the insecure. Much to my surprise and
    dismay, I had over 100 netmails I never knew existed come flooding
    into my system. Suffice to say that I made sure that my BBS takes in -all- mail now and lets me decide to what to do with it.

    MBSE (by default) only tosses inbound mail from secure sessions. It is then the sysop's responsibility to check the unsecured inbound regularly and act on any mail received. The issue with Mystic is that it will (by default) not allow incoming sessions from nodes that do not have a session password configured.

    Andrew

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    * Origin: Phoenix BBS * phoenix.bnbbbs.net (1:320/219)