Subj : Re: Newbie question
To   : Accession
From : MRO
Date : Thu Nov 28 2024 08:02 pm

 Re: Re: Newbie question
 By: Accession to Digital Man on Thu Nov 28 2024 05:55 pm

> Hello Digital,
>
> On Thu, Nov 28 2024 13:16:46 -0600, you wrote ..
>
> > I'm not in any hurry to address this in SBBSecho. The problem is
> > with the originator's configuration: they need an origin line in
> > their echomail messages. It's a critical source of metadata (the
> > originator's address) in all echomail messages.
>
> Understood and you know this, I know this, and others know this.
> However, the half a dozen or more times the solution has been given to
> the originator it has gone completely ignored. There's only so much we
> can do. You can lead a horse to water etc etc. *shrug*
>

Well you can't fix stupid. You can't do a work around each time someone does something stupid. Remember a while back a person wanted DM to lock out new users from posting by default in the bbs software because there were a few spammers?

The best thing to do is warn the person, tell them to use a testing area only, and if they won't abide, block them.
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