28 May 15 02:57, you wrote to Paul Quinn:   
      
    PQ>> --- D'Bridge 3.99   
    PQ>>  * Origin: Many Glacier -- Protect - Preserve - Conserve (2:292/854)   
    PQ>> PATH: 292/854 280/5555 640/384   
      
    PQ>> --- SBBSecho 2.27-Win32   
    PQ>>  * Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)   
    PQ>> PATH: 249/303 280/464 5555 640/384   
      
    TK> Both of these messages have address of origin on PATH line, but not on   
    TK> SEENBY line.   
      
   right... some software adds their address to the seenbys and some doesn't...   
      
   here's what FTS-0004 has to say about seenbys...   
      
   [quote]   
       4. Seen-by Lines   
      
            There can  be many  seen-by lines  at the  end of Conference   
            Mail messages,  and they  are the real "meat" of the control   
            information. They  are used  to  determine  the  systems  to   
            receive the exported messages. The format of the line is:   
      
      
            The net/node  numbers correspond  to the net/node numbers of   
   >        the systems having already received the message. In this way   
   >        a message  is never  sent to a system twice. In a conference   
            with many  participants the  number of  seen-by lines can be   
            very large.   This line is added if it is not already a part   
            of the  message, or added to if it already exists, each time   
            a message  is exported  to other systems. This is a REQUIRED   
            field, and  Conference Mail  will not  function correctly if   
            this field  is not put in place by other Echomail compatible   
            programs.   
   [/quote]   
      
   note the two hilited lines... strict reading of that line might suggest that   
   each system that gets a message add their address to the seenbys... another   
   view is like that used today where the sending system adds the addresses of   
   the systems it is sending the message to... nothing is really said about what   
   an originating system should do with its address and the seenbys... on one   
   hand, it makes sense to add it, on the other, it is in the origin and the   
   first in the path so it should be apparent that it saw it already...   
      
   then think about what happens when a point originates an echomail message...   
   take this one for example ;)   
      
    TK> I have received also some .PKT's from Andrew's FE, but I didn't find any   
    TK> failures yet.   
      
   that's a good thing :)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... That old thing? It is a pretty good work of fiction, though!   
   ---   
    * Origin:  (1:3634/12.73)