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|    August Abolins to Anna Christina Nass    |
|    Disabling "Packet password".. had no eff    |
|    04 Mar 21 08:10:00    |
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ee1f8b66   
   REPLY: 2:240/5824.1@fidonet ee1c8978   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.49 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   Hello Anna Christina!   
      
   ** On Thursday 04.03.21 - 12:11, you wrote:   
      
    ACN> - Disabling "Packet password" in Edit/Servers/Edit/Point   
    ACN> had no effect   
      
    ACN> 2021-03-03 15:29:04 Packet /sbbs/fido/inbound/xxx.PKT from   
    ACN> 2:240/5824.1 - Incorrect password ('' instead of 'xxx')   
      
   That is a different matter. What *was* the matter was that a    
   session password in-the-clear was included in ALL outgoing PKTs    
   (including crash/direct)!   
      
   So.. it may not be wise anyone to continue to use any version    
   less than 5.0.49.   
      
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