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Skriven 2004-08-21 16:23:46 av Jasen Betts (3:640/1042)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal (1:153/401.1)
Ärende: poe
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Hello Maurice.

19 Aug 04 22:11, you wrote to Dan Ceppa:

 MK> Hey Dan!

 MK> Aug 20 00:45 04, Dan Ceppa wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 DC>> I'm not taking FIDO kludges!  It's the ones for Internet Mail.

 MK> There aren't any.  I think we might be talking about the same thing,
 MK> except that the email header is converted into kludges so that it more
 MK> resembles Fido messages.  None of those kludges is usable by any Fido
 MK> tosser I have run across and are not valid email headers anymore.  So
 MK> the question is what are they for and why are they trransmitted to
 MK> other nodes who simply pass them on without ever using or needing
 MK> them?

because some nodes may want to convert them back to internet style messages.
(ie email or news)

From the ifmail FAQ:

Q: How do I get rid of the RFC headers converted to that silly kludges
   in the FidoNet messages?
A: You cannot.  The author insists on *always* keeping the header
   information.  There is a Good Reason to keep them, trust me!
   The root idea of ifmail gateway is that the gateway has no right to
   drop information that it does not understand.  If you like, think of
   it as of my religious views.  I am pretty convinced that the best
   thing you can do with someone other's information that you agreed to
   carry is to pass it untouched.  If a guy chose to put his telephone
   number into X-Phone: header, he has a right to have it delivered to
   the readers, no difference if they are on "this" or "that" side of
   the gateway.  Of course, there are many and many cases when this
   requirement is not met.  For example, in the former Soviet Union the
   KGB thought that it had a right to prelustrate mail (real "paper"
   mail), and decide if the particular letter should be delivered or
   not.  That was common practice for international mail.  But you
   should agree that this is unfair practice.  Another example: open the
   cowling of your car (or case of your VCR) and remove details which
   function you do not understand.

Q: But the other sysops are complaing about the unnecessary (for them)
   load, they will simply kick me out of Fido!
A: They have no right to do it.  You do not violate any standarts.  You
   do not violate policy.  So, there is no legal reason for punishment.
   If they take action against you, complain to the superior
   coordinator, and you have a good chance to win.

Hope that helps.

Jasen

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