Subj : same as it ever was
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Little Mikey
Date : Thu Apr 19 2018 04:04:12

Attention Sean,

 SD> I'd ask that you report that broken link to someone who can
 SD> either contact the sysop or reroute around that system.

It is being routed around else this particular reply to your reply wouldn't be 
happening.  As for contacting the sysop that isn't an issue as last time this 
happened there was no problem with this node - 1:153/7001 - contacting it to 
point out there was obvious breakage.  However that fixes nothing and the 
fts-0001.016 MSGs - up to and including this one - don't get beyond that 
particular node as well as yours and every other message whether or not they 
are indeed fts-0001.016 compliant, which they usually aren't.  Complaining 
about it achieves nothing as past experience has proved many, many, many times.

This node - 1:153/7001 - is one of the few, perhaps the only Fidonet node, that 
knows how to hack a working pktheader when a link demonstrates that it cannot 
handle fts-0001.016 compliant pktheader(s).  I am aware of many Fidonet nodes, 
most in very sensitive positions, that are noncompliant and have been 
noncompliant for decades now.

End transmission.

.... Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
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