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   Message 250 of 342   
   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.   
      
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