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   Digital Man to Nicholas Boel   
   Re: nntpserver adding .fidonet tld for n   
   09 Nov 24 18:53:56   
   
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     Re: Re: nntpserver adding .fidonet tld for non fidonet networks.   
     By: Nicholas Boel to Digital Man on Sat Nov 09 2024 08:25 pm   
      
    > On Sat, Nov 09 2024 17:56:23 -0600, you wrote:   
    >   
    > > A reader of the Synchronet NNTP service can reply such a message via   
    > > email and the response will get gated to a FTN netmail message to   
    > > the original (FTN) message author. It's a feature, not a bug.   
    >   
    > Ok, so what you're saying is that ".fidonet" only triggers a gated FTN   
    > netmail message, but if you were to actually send an email/netmail to   
    > the original (FTN) message author of any network besides Fidonet, it   
    > would use the proper network even though it says ".fidonet"?   
      
   Correct.   
      
    > If so, understood and thanks for the clarification. Just wierd that it   
    > wouldn't say the actual network that the p.f.n.z corresponds to   
      
   The ".fidonet" is not indicating a "network" but rather a "network type". It   
   has nothing to do with what FTN domain the address might be in.   
      
    > , and   
    > while I'm no JS guru whatsoever, looking at the function in mailutil.js,   
    > it seems to set the variable "ftn" to fidonet before any actual domains   
    > are checked for.   
      
   Feel free to hack at it, but most echomail messages doesn't actually have a   
   FTN domain in its message headers.   
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                                               digital man (rob)   
      
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