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   On 05-06-14, Bill McGarrity said the following...   
       
    BM> Quick question if Imay.     
      
   Quick answer if I might!   
      
    BM> The issue is with Zone Blind toggle.  If I don't want one network's   
    BM> addresses to appear in the seen-by and path lines of another, should   
    BM> that toggle be "enabled" or "disabled"? If enabled, that brings us to   
    BM> another issue that I was told to add a 4 at the end of the Zone_Blind in   
    BM> the sbbsecho.cfg file.  I am assuming that means the first 4 zones   
    BM> should be considered as one.  Over the past few weeks with the issues of   
    BM> the INTL kludge line in echomail (which was determined sbbsecho was not   
    BM> to blame) my head is spinning.... not that it doesn't normally spin   
    BM> anyway.   
      
   No need for your head to spin.   
      
   everyone would still get their echomail if there were duplicate nets.   
      
   For example, the last duplicate net was 250. There was a 1:250 anda 2:250.   
   the echomail, and vice versa.   
      
   Since there are no more duplicate nets in Fidonet, some have asked top stop   
   help in the matter. What he did was create the ZONE BLIND option. At first   
   this caused trouble if you carried multiple networks because any echomail for   
   node number, my Zeronet node number, etc, were all being stuffed into Fidonet   
   echomail, which wasn't good (just in case) there was a matching net/node   
   combination between Fidonet and one of those other networks.   
      
   So, going back to Rob.. he added an optional number afterthe ZONE_BLIND   
   option. This way you can do ZONE_BLIND 4 and zones 1 through 4 will keep all   
      
   In all reality, you *could* put ZONE_BLIND 6 but it really doesn't matter   
   anymore since there are no zones5 and 6 in Fidonet. Any other zones above 4   
   Agoranet is zone 46. Only zone 46 net/node combinations will be put into   
   echomail.   
      
   Also, The ZONE_BLIND 4 option helps those same people in Fidonet with dupe   
   be less dupes. By now you've probably gotten a chance to see what the   
   "fidoweb" is all about. Everyone links to everyone for the same echos, and   
   let the dupe detection sort everything out. This is why they'reasking to   
   across zones.   
      
   I'm sure Rob could have done it a better way, but this was a quick fix to   
   make the very few people in Fidonet happy, while noone else in other networks   
   have any issues sticking to the old ways of doing things.   
      
   Either way, it's tried and tested here, working great for Fidonet, and the   
   rest of the networks separately.   
      
   BTW, the INTL kludge stuffing wasn't any kind of scare except to the original   
   person that posted about it when they realized it was their own system. LOL!   
      
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