Subj : FTS-4010 Final Review
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Tue Jun 08 2021 01:11 pm
Good ${greeting_time}, Wilfred!
08 Jun 2021 09:11:54, you wrote to Bj�rn Felten:
CN>>> Maybe PING:T instead of PING,TRACE ...?
BF>> Or maybe abandon that stupid PING/TRACE idea entirely?
WvV> It's not stupid at all! It's a very useful tool to test netmail
WvV> routing, without bothering sysops, and depend on them sending
WvV> replies. (You take the human factor out of it).
You too: the sysops see these messages anyway, and if there are too many, that becomes very annoying.
That's exactly the reason why I've removed the PING flag from my nodelist line and shot down the robot. Once anyone would try to send it to me, they'll get a manually crafted fuqoff reply, or, most likely, no reply at all.
WvV> The more reason to have a tool that can show netmail paths, when it
WvV> travels these non standard routes...
... means the more reason to not supporting it.
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Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
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