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 Message 2096 
 Martin Foster to Wilfred van Velzen 
 OXP: ^REPLYTO missing?, was: ^REPLYID mi 
 22 Nov 20 09:09:00 
 
MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet eaa9766d
REPLY: 2:280/464 5fb7ea6c
PID: OpenXP/5.0.47 (Win32) (i386)
CHRS: ASCII 1
TZUTC: 0000
Hello Wilfred!

*** Friday 20.11.20 at 17:09, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>>> At closer inspection, we may both be wrong.  The samples show
 AA>>> @REPLYTO.

 AA>> From FSC-0035:

 AA>> ^REPLYTO zone:net/node firstname lastname

 AA>> which is used to signify the "userid" which mail destined to this other
 AA>> network must be sent to and on which machine that userids resides.
 AA>> Replies are sent to this zone:net/node and userid with the first line of
 AA>> the message being changed into 'TO: ....' where .... is the FULL userid
 AA>> from the ^AREPLYADDR line.

 AA>> In anycase, OpenXP seems to be ignoring it.  :(

 WvV> It's an FSC document, so not a standard...

Yep, precisely and it's entirely at the discretion of software developers  
whether they implement the feature or not.

Extract from FSC-0035:
---------- 8< ----------
"This proposal should allow for almost totally
transparent gateways but requires the
co-operation of BBS software writers
to support this following protocol."
---------- 8< ----------

Regards,
Martin

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