20 Jan 12 20:58, Nicholas Boel wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    NB>   Re: Processing nodelists with UTF?   
    NB>   By: Roy Witt to Nicholas Boel on Fri Jan 20 2012 07:52 am   
      
    >> It sounds confusing until you put your node in the equation.   
      
    >> You're the downlink of the node where you get your echomail.   
      
    >> Janis is your uplink for echomail that you send to her system.   
      
    NB> I know this. But the way I'm describing it only needs the downlink   
    NB> part of the description.   
      
   Put my system in place of Janis' system. I hub for my net and I also feed   
   a couple of nodes not in my net, but in the region. Think of my system as   
   a Star and the others as my downlinks. Then think of my system when those   
   downlinks are sending mail back to mine for distribution. A star doesn't   
   have to be a *C as Janis has been trying to tell you. Although I am, in   
   this case.   
      
    NB>  I'm talking about the mail I'm receiving here sometimes comes in   
    NB> perfect (like your last message to me with the umlauted character,   
    NB> came through just fine).   
      
   Thanks. I have been working on perfecting the setup here to perform like a   
   Star.   
      
    NB>  With putting MY node into the equation, that would only be an uplink   
    NB> problem (ie: someone that assists in the process of getting mail down   
    NB> the line to me).   
      
   Ummmm, no. Your system sends mail back to your uplink, whether that's a   
   link between you and a Star or directly to a Star.   
      
    >> No, there's a back and forth flow of mail that goes both directions,   
    >> so it can't be a trickle affect.   
      
    NB> I get what you're saying here too. For example, if a sysop sent an   
    NB> umlauted character to his/her NC, and the NC couldn't process it   
    NB> correctly, it would end up at Janis's system already messed up. Then   
    NB> again, I was only referring to right here on my system, to which I   
    NB> suppose _everyone_ would be an uplink to me. :)   
      
   You're an NC, don't you have any other nodes in your net? Nope...just you.   
      
    >> No. You're the downlink of the Star, but you also send mail to the   
    >> Star. AKA uplink.   
      
    NB> I must get echomail through random paths, though. Because sometimes   
    NB> high ascii gets here just fine, and other times it doesn't. Yet ALL   
    NB> mail routes through Janis and the stars, correct?   
      
   No...I send/receive mail from a node in Z3, I send/receive mail from one   
   of the NAB Stars, I have a link in Z2 that sends me the Z2 copy of   
   Fidonews and I get mail from a couple of nodes in my region.   
      
    NB> LOL, for some reason I thought about Benny and the Jets when saying   
    NB> Janis and the stars. :)   
      
   8^) Havn't heard much from the guy who sang about Benny and the Jets since   
   the mid 70s...   
      
      
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