Mark,   
      
   ML>that's the way it is supposed to work but many don't understand these things   
   ML>and ignorantly break the system because they don't know... others break the   
   ML>system on purpose because they can... either way, it either works or it is   
   ML>broken because of someone specifically breaking it...   
      
     One of the differences with GT Power BBS software and the way it handled   
   network echomail or netmail (when the network was at its peak years ago), was   
   that certain systems could "sponsor" an echo...similar to "moderating" an echo   
   in FIDONet.   
      
     Network nodes would request the echo by an ID number, such as E00/103, via   
   netmail from their hub (similar to the way an Areafix is done in FIDONet),   
   then would set up their ROUTING.BBS file to get it from their hub, if they had   
   it.   
      
     But, unlike FIDONet, all messages for the echo, originating on a BBS other   
   than the system sponsoring it, would go to the sponsoring system FIRST. That   
   way, the moderator/echo sponsor, could weed out any messages not considered   
   conducive to the echo (i.e. spam), and with various utilities, have those   
   messages deleted. All other messages would then echo out to the rest of the   
   network.   
      
     With FIDONet, systems that are linked to the echo, see posts from other   
   downlinks...sometimes before they get to the sponsoring/moderating   
   system...and before they are dealt with by a moderator. I've wondered though,   
   that even with a feed cut, would an offending poster try another way to get to   
   the echo??   
      
   Daryl   
      
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