[Dxspider-support] File forwarding and other questions

[Dirk Koopman]

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 23:16, John Clayton wrote:
> However, it means that users on "the other side" of a limited protocol
> connection from the sender will not receive the message as the
> originating node may never see them logged on.

There are very few "active" limited protocol connections in the DXSpider
connected network. It isn't a concept that applies, very much, anymore.
Furthermore, with internet connectivity becoming the norm, rather than
the exception, I believe "limited-protocol" will largely go away. 

That is not say that I regard the current mail characteristics as ideal
(or even "alright", never mind "good") and I will be addressing that at
some point in the future when I have good the basics of NP off the
ground.

There are a whole host of problems with mail, files etc that need to be
addressed - most of these are linked to the totally inadequate protocol
currently in use. 

I will get around to it (or is that a round tuit?). 
 
> It also means that mail to a "pseudo" address (ie an addressee that is
> set up for a specific purpose and does not actually log on) does not get
> delivered. we had such an address in the UK network which has worked
> fine for years. It is DX1QSL, set up so that users can send a message
> addressed to it requesting QSL information. The message would be
> forwarded to GB7DXC and then processed on GB7DXC and any info pertaining
> to the message would be automatically returned to the user in a mail
> message.  This system has now ceased to work.  No on was informed that
> the system was being altered - we had to wait for users to complain that
> they were not getting answers to their messages.

If you connected your 'pseudo' address to your cluster as a user or
otherwise caused a PC16 for that address to be emitted then you would
get your mail.

This doesn't seem to me to be very hard, nor is it IMHO much of an
imposition.

Dirk