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  • Re: Netmail

    From kf5qeo@1:218/700 to All on Tue May 6 20:47:00 2014
    I've got a problem that's really driving me crazy. I get a net-mail in from zone 46, I reply to it, it works perfectly fine. I get a net-mail from Marc Lewis, Zone-1, net 396, node 45, I try to reply to his message and it locks
    up. I alt-tab to the window that shows the session with the "ALT-V to view session" (whatever you want to call that window). I have to close out the window by hitting the X on the window. When I do that, the telnet session
    gets terminated and I can then log back in, go to the net-mail area, post a
    new netmail message to Marc Lewis at 1:396/45 and it works fine. As long as
    I post a message, it works, if I reply to anyone but Marc Lewis, it works. Reply to Marc Lewis's message, it doesn't work. I've tried runing SquishFix
    on the message area, didn't help. Didn't seem to have any problems. I've checked and Marc's entry in my echo mail node list appears to be the same
    as anyone else's.

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    John Guillory [KF5QEO]
    westlakegeek@yahoo.com
    KF5QEO@1:396/60

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  • From kf5qeo@1:218/700 to All on Tue May 6 21:26:00 2014
    Another problem here: there are no Zonegates listed in Zone 2 Nodelist
    for fidonet Zones 1-4, so Zone 1 Zonegate will no longer work ... :-P but this is another story ....
    O.k. This is really messed up! It'd appear our great elected officials
    of fidonet are slacking. ;-) I'd have to look into the past nodelist files
    to see where the removal of the zone gates occured. Most likely the zone coordinator changed something in the config file for his version of makenl or nlmake, etc whatever he uses. He most likely didn't notice that for some strange reason he lost the zone gates. Either that, or he was just a jerk
    and didn't want Zone 1 communicating with Zone 2, and said "I'll just take
    the zone gates out, so no one has to listen to Zone 1!" Who knows, maybe he
    was kicked out of a Zone1 echomail area, and thought "Hey, if they can't contact my echo mail feeds, they can't cut them!" But otherwise, assuming
    he removed the zone gates because no one could provide the gating service in zone 2 due to expensive cost and lack of internet feed to various zones, then I'd say why wouldn't he have the decency to contact the other zone managers
    and let them know he was removing them. Who knows, maybe he did and the zone
    1 coordinator just got forgetful and said "Yeah, I'll remove it this week",
    and this week never come....

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    John Guillory [KF5QEO]
    westlakegeek@yahoo.com
    KF5QEO@1:396/60

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