Subj : jumpin' jack flash
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Apr 23 2018 06:32:44

Hey Alan!

I thought I'd switch back to myself for replies and leave the "Little Mikey" 
ones for testing if and when needed.  I think I've confused myself enough for 
awhile and I don't seem to be gaining any insight.

 AI> it defaults to type 2+ (4D address support)

Understood.  I believe it was around the turn of the century when I noticed 
they were becoming the majority and a few years later that the standardized 
pktheader was becoming unsupported by the majority of nodes.  Not sure if the 
sysops of those nodes were actually aware of the change in many cases.  If the 
only reason for the change was to support 4D addressing it appears not to have 
worked as far as creating additional usage of fidonet echomail.  I played 
around with it for a number of years and wasn't all that fond of it, other than 
it beat offline messaging especially the QWK format.

Anyhow I am done testing for now and am not convinced I achieved anything in 
the process.  I am starting to think it might have been better to let sleeping 
dogs lie.  Oh well ... live and learn eh?

Life is good,
Maurice

.... Don't cry for me I have vi.
--- GNU bash, version 4.4.19(1)-release (x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu)
 * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001)

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