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|    Wilfred van Velzen to Nick Andre    |
|    Re: Packet password case insensitive or    |
|    22 Apr 20 09:46:12    |
      TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815       RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes       TZUTC: 0200       CHRS: UTF-8 2       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221       MSGID: 2:280/464 5e9ff747       REPLY: 1:229/426 1706685D       Hi Nick,              On 2020-04-21 15:50:37, you wrote to me:               WV>> NA> Packet passwords are treated case sensitive by some tossers.        WV>>        WV>> Do you know which ones?               NA> Offhand... and I could be wrong... AdeptXBBS Gatekeeper, TBBS/Flame, Gecho        NA> 1.20/Pro... Possibly Viamail. I'm sure there are others.              That's an obscure list. ;)              Never heard of the first two, are they still used?               NA> I had a downlink years ago who specifically needed a mixed-case        NA> password.              Was that a technical necessity? I can hardly imagine that.               NA> If two Sysops cannot troubleshoot packet-password problems then thats        NA> not a tosser problem.              Any combination of case (in)sensitive tossers should be able to communicate, I       think. Unless a tosser sends out packet passwords in one case, and expects to       receive it in the other case. But I would call that a bug. ;)               NA> Just remove whatever uppercase-parse code in Fmail, be done.              I'm leaning in that direction...              Bye, Wilfred.              --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815        * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 103/705 120/340 601 154/10 203/0 221/0       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/426 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 288/100 292/854 8125 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1       PATH: 280/464 229/426           |
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