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|    Roy Witt to Kevin Klement    |
|    packet/session    |
|    18 Jan 11 13:49:26    |
      17 Jan 11 14:46, Kevin Klement wrote to Roy Witt:               >> I think a packet password would apply to all of those. It's        >> no longer a matter of transport, but a matter of which        >> tosser/unpacker is in use.               KK> Isn't the packet password /for/ REX /only/ when it creates mail        KK> files.              Nope. AFAIK, REX doesn't create mail files.               KK> Nothing to do with what the sysop uses for a tosser/unpacker.              True...but the tosser creates mail files in FD fashion that REX will use       to send the mail packets.               KK> Thats how I understood the REX doc.               >> I use FE, which does differentiate between session and        >> packet passwords, so I can't speak for those that don't.               KK> I use Squish, it just has a packet password option, I run Binkley        KK> here which supports a session password.              I used to use Squish, but I didn't like it very much.               >> like those of 'the Great Carmack' and can know what the        >> password is before attempting to unpak it.               KK> Hehehe.. I get it.                      R\%/itt               Fox News was not used as a source for information in this message!              --- Twit(t) Filter v2.1 (C) 2000-10        * Origin: SATX Alamo Area Net * South * Texas, USA * (1:387/22)    |
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