Subj : FTS-4010 Final Review
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Tue Jun 08 2021 02:46 pm
Good ${greeting_time}, Wilfred!
08 Jun 2021 13:05:14, you wrote to me:
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).
AV>> You too: the sysops see these messages anyway, and if there are
AV>> too many, that becomes very annoying.
WvV> That's by choice. You could configure your system so it doesn't
WvV> archive the received and sent PING mails, so you would see none
WvV> at all. So you are annoyed by your own inability to configure
WvV> your system?
I prefer to see what is going on. And how to configure _my_ system is _my_ choise.
And lots of messages sent to _my_ system could be annoying for _me_.
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Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
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