Subj : Re: Zone Blind...
To : Nicholas Boel
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Tue Nov 07 2017 06:26 am
-=> Nicholas Boel wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
Hiya Nick...
BM> Quick question if I may.
NB> Quick answer if I might!
Might as well... :)
BM> The issue is with Zone Blind toggle. If I don't want one network's
BM> addresses to appear in the seen-by and path lines of another, should
BM> that toggle be "enabled" or "disabled"? If enabled, that brings us to
BM> another issue that I was told to add a 4 at the end of the Zone_Blind in
BM> the sbbsecho.cfg file. I am assuming that means the first 4 zones
BM> should be considered as one. Over the past few weeks with the issues of
BM> the INTL kludge line in echomail (which was determined sbbsecho was not
BM> to blame) my head is spinning.... not that it doesn't normally spin
BM> anyway.
NB> No need for your head to spin.
With the day I've had it's lucky it's just spinning.. :)
NB> So, going back to Rob.. he added an optional number after the
NB> ZONE_BLIND option. This way you can do ZONE_BLIND 4 and zones 1 through
NB> 4 will keep all SEEN-BYs in those zones, but anything AFTER 4 will not.
OK, I now have ZONE_BLIND 4 in the cfg. Hopefully this will resolve the
issues.
NB> Either way, it's tried and tested here, working great for Fidonet, and
NB> the rest of the networks separately.
I'll be doing a test with Andrew Leary tonight... hopefully this will resolve
it.
NB> BTW, the INTL kludge stuffing wasn't any kind of scare except to the
NB> original person that posted about it when they realized it was their
NB> own system. LOL!
