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    From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Mark Lewis on Saturday, March 26, 2016 18:45:00

    Mark,

    that's the way it is supposed to work but many don't understand these things ML>and ignorantly break the system because they don't know... others break the ML>system on purpose because they can... either way, it either works or it is ML>broken because of someone specifically breaking it...

    One of the differences with GT Power BBS software and the way it handled network echomail or netmail (when the network was at its peak years ago), was that certain systems could "sponsor" an echo...similar to "moderating" an echo in FIDONet.

    Network nodes would request the echo by an ID number, such as E00/103, via netmail from their hub (similar to the way an Areafix is done in FIDONet), then
    would set up their ROUTING.BBS file to get it from their hub, if they had it.

    But, unlike FIDONet, all messages for the echo, originating on a BBS other than the system sponsoring it, would go to the sponsoring system FIRST. That way, the moderator/echo sponsor, could weed out any messages not considered conducive to the echo (i.e. spam), and with various utilities, have those messages deleted. All other messages would then echo out to the rest of the network.

    With FIDONet, systems that are linked to the echo, see posts from other downlinks...sometimes before they get to the sponsoring/moderating system...and
    before they are dealt with by a moderator. I've wondered though, that even with
    a feed cut, would an offending poster try another way to get to the echo??

    Daryl

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Daryl Stout on Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:26:58

    26 Mar 16 18:45, you wrote to me:

    With FIDONet, systems that are linked to the echo, see posts from
    other downlinks...sometimes before they get to the
    sponsoring/moderating system...and before they are dealt with by a moderator. I've wondered though, that even with a feed cut, would an offending poster try another way to get to the echo??

    sure they'll go BBS hopping hoping to find another BBS with the same echo... back in the day, it was harder than today... if you lived somewhere with a lot of BBSes it was as easy as it is today in that you could call all of them for a
    local call... doing the hopping thing to get around a ban was one reason why sysops started talking to each other to be able to block users that were doing this... today many systems are available via telnet or ssh or similar so today's users can hop all around the world looking for BBSes with the echo they
    are blocked from...

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