g0> If you read the original developer of BSO's manifesto - The entire point
 g0> of his specification was to be able to determine packet destinations by
 g0> simply looking at the filename.
     I'm not sure what the BSO is, but I agree (aparently) with 100% of what
you said he said.  In all the years I've been in fidonet, I've had my share
of mailer crashes, and other cases where the .CUT / .OUT file would get sent
out, the bundle file was supposed to be deleted, but wasn't, or some
screwball reason the packer got configured to truncate it.  I go cleaning up
the system a month or two later, and what do you know?  I've got these
bundles that aren't linked to any other files, and since the .CUT and .OUT
files no longer exist, the mailer will never go out.  Though at a time, I
used to have a really sharp plugin for FAR (File Area Manager) that would
allow you to view the packet and see who it was from (and node number), who
it was to (and node number), subject, and the text.... 

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John Guillory  [KF5QEO]
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