Subj : [--- Talk ---]
To : Steven Horn
From : Winston Smith
Date : Fri Mar 21 2003 04:16 am
No! No! No!
I'm not talking about the node list listing....
I am talking about the Mailer Footer!
Sorry! I forgot that those are added by the outgoing mailer and not
actually seen by the poster.... My mistake. I should have been more
explicit. I do not expect the FidoNET nodelisting to be *ACCURATE* ...
especially in Zone 1 ! It hasn't been accurate since the late '80s!
I think you use timEd ... hold on a minute while I paste in the footer:
The word 'mailer' and 'binkp' are just suggestions....
Why does Michel always assume that I am Charles or you, and now I guess
you assume that I am Michel. I am *only* making a suggestion. From the
mailer footer above I assumed the posting came from a BBS. I am not
asking you to do a blessed thing; I am merely citing an example of how
Phil Simpson's "Swills" system does it. I wasted an entire month trying
to connect to "Write By Night" and I wasted a month of my time before
that trying to connect to "Sparkys". Both were HTTP mailers, but this
was noted exactly *NOWHERE* in their postings or their listings or their
footers. Why did I assume that they were BBSes ? Because my
neighborhood nodelist 1:322/* list M.S.I. Code-Runner TBBS, a board that
hasn't been up for over a decade! It lists an NC of "The Software
Exchange", a Sysop who has been living on the opposite coast for nine
months! It lists "The Caldron", whose Sysop had a heart attack and took
his board down two years ago! Lost Crypt lists a phone line when the
BBS has been telnet only for the past three years. Nobody seems to care
if a board is up or down, they just want the regional votes apparently.
When a BBS doesn't behave as expected from the nodelist information, I
can not take the results as gospel. How do I determine if a posted
footer is a mailer or a BBS ? The FidoNET node listing is no help. The
entries are not individually date stamped and the information in Zone 1
is inaccurate! The Postmaster and the Sysop each have to give me a
clue, because I am not going to get it from the stale nodelist
entries....
