Subj : Re: Point
To : Ward Dossche
From : James Coyle
Date : Thu Nov 18 2021 11:27 am
WD> Are your Dutch relatives causing you headaches again ?
In that context I would count you as my Dutch relative, so sure! ;)
WD> Second, I don't know what "I was there" means because I only see a James
WD> Coyle listed for 42 days in 2001 and then your current nodenumber since
WD> March 2013. Unless you're one of Janis' secret friends ...
My original net hasn't existed for decades, which really should be common sense. I spent a total of maybe 60 seconds to Google "old FidoNet nodelist" and immediately found one from 1994 with me in:
https://happy.kiev.ua/pub/nodelist/old/nodelist/1994/nodelist.063
Of course by 1994 I was a hub and running my own custom software out of a college town which didn't happen overnight. You could possibly still trace back into the 80s as a user posting about programming if you wanted to.
Its almost like you didn't even care about diligence before you typed, and
whatever this is that you're trying to do here isn't genuine. :)
WD> Please read what is said originally ... "handles" ... That means the
WD> MSGID is already there ... i.e. how will an existing MSGID be dealt with.
A mailer isn't touching MSGIDs in any case, and what I said is 100% accurate.
Hopefully he'll be able to distinguish between the person who understands the technology from the person who jumps into other people's conversations just to create arguments! This isn't on topic here anyway.
... Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.
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