22 Jan 12 18:55, Nicholas Boel wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    >>  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> And your mail goes through others before it gets here, correct? It   
    NB> seems as though the line from you to me is in working order.   
      
      
   I'd say so.   
      
    >> 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.   
      
    NB> I understand that. But in the sense of the umlaut character coming to   
    NB> me just fine, has nothing to do with me sending it back. That's all I   
    NB> was referring to in this entire conversation. So uplinks weren't a   
    NB> necessity to be included.   
      
   Oh yes. If any one of those inbetween tossed the mail sent to you or me,   
   it has a chance of being changed from the umlaut to something else. Once   
   it has been converted, it is no longer possible to convert it back again.   
      
    >> You're an NC, don't you have any other nodes in your net? Nope...just   
    >> you.   
      
    NB> Exactly. :) I make a nodelist segment, that's about it. :)   
      
   I added a node to my segment by perousing the nodelist and asking the RC   
   to drop a RIN and I'd relist him in net387. He wasn't forced to join the   
   net, but he was happy to do so.   
      
    >> 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> Then if you receive mail from a node in Z3, where does it go from   
    NB> your system? To a Star hub?   
      
   It goes from here to Roger and back to Z3 for distribution. Janis gets our   
   posts from the same Z3 source, thus it eventually ends up at the Z1 star   
   system, as well as in Z2. Entirely independent of the Z1 stars.   
      
    NB> If so, my point is made.   
      
   Only to the extent that Roger's and mine eventually ends up at a Star Hub   
   for distribution, but indirectly.   
      
    NB> I can only assume that unless private netmail is set directly,   
    NB> everything goes through the Star hubs in order to get dispursed to   
    NB> the rest of us, right?   
      
   Nope. Netmail from here usually goes out directly, but some of it is   
   routed, but not necessarily through the Star Hubs.   
      
   i.e. I wrote an article for Fidonews and thought it would go directly to   
   the Fidonews node listed as 1:1/1, but I had forgotten that I still had   
   Ross set in my route.rex to send Z1 routed mail through him. When I got   
   news that he had forwarded my article to Janis for delivery to Nick (Fnews   
   editor), I took measures to eliminate routed netmail to Z1. Especially   
   important there was that Ross doesn't route messages with a file attach.   
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