Hi! Wilfred,   
      
   On Sat, 16 Sep 17, you wrote to me:   
      
    PQ>> Just between you & me before anyone else notices: how   
    PQ>> does one bargain with or bribe FMail into exporting a    
    PQ>> FREQ netmail into the binkD stream?   
    WvV> You can't.   
      
   I am crushed.  :(   
      
    PQ>> FMail completely ignores a FREQ from me to my main   
    PQ>> node,   
    WvV> That's by design. Freq's are not really the domain of a   
    WvV> mail processor/tosser.   
      
   You had better tell FTools then.  It has a 'post' function sporting a '-r'   
   switch (I wasn't using it... honest).   
      
    WvV> A BSO mailer needs a .req file to send a file request to a   
    WvV> node.   
      
   That's all the tosser needs to do in a BSO environment: parse the Subj field   
   for FREQ-able filename(s), and create the .Req file for the intended system   
   from the netmail.  That .Req file is added to the .Flo file.  The contents are   
   the requested filename(s) at one per line.   
      
    WvV>  So if you would pack a netmail with a freq flag into   
    WvV> a .pkt file nothing that you expect would happen except of   
    WvV> course the .pkt file would be send to the node. Where it   
    WvV> would be handled by the nodes tosser, and not by the   
    WvV> mailer or freq processor...   
      
   That is something like a FrontDoor/Intermail environment (maybe not the .Pkt   
   part).  I dunno any more as I gave up on FroDo last century.   
      
   I'm pretty sure these are the ways that FastEcho works.  That may not carry   
   much weight with you and I am not wielding it as if in an argument; I'm just   
   saying.  IAC, I am happy to be corrected by Mark Lewis as he knows best.   
      
   OTOH, I have learned to not be able to FREQ via netmail from node #1384 since   
   having used CrashMail II for the last five years.  It is similarly retarded.    
   I'm not disappointed, just crushed.  ;-)   
      
   Thank you for your time.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
    * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)