Subj : PATH kludge on exported echomail
To   : mark lewis
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Feb 03 2022 18:32:43

  Re: PATH kludge on exported echomail
  By: Digital Man to mark lewis on Thu Feb 03 2022 11:14 am

 >   Re: PATH kludge on exported echomail
 >   By: mark lewis to Digital Man on Thu Feb 03 2022 07:02 am
 >
 >
 >  >  On 2022 Feb 02 16:56:08, you wrote to deon:
 >
 >  >  DM> It depends on what rules you're following. When zones were
 >  >  DM> introduced to FidoNet and for a long time after, the norm was strip
 >  >  DM> PATH and SEEN-BY lines when the message crossed a zone boundry
 >  >  DM> (because there could be ambiguity between 3:632/509 and 2:632/509,
 >  >  DM> since neither the zone information is not included in the addresses
 >  >  DM> on these lines).
 >
 >  > seenbys were stripped... paths were not unless maybe when gated between
 >  > othernets...
 >
 > SBBSecho stripped the PATHs (and still does) when crossing zone boundaries,
 > except for the ZoneBlind cases.

Actually, now that I look look at that code more closely, it's not that the PATH lines are "stripped" but rather "filtered" (points and nodes with foreign zones are removed).
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