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#24 06 Oct 89 13:34:24 [1] (PRIVATE) (KILL/SENT) $0.22
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From: Tom Jennings, 1:125/111
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To: Doug Thompson, 1:163/162, <ISIS HQ (II), Ottawa ON
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Subj: Re: re: Fido 12 commercial version
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The INTL line is really the messages address fields. The ones in the .MSG
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header are inadequate -- no zone fields. So FIdo fully addresses every
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message. Others insist it is not necesarry. I insist it is. Here's why:
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If you or I genreate a mesage that is inter-zone, once delivered it is
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intra-zone! And in transit along the way its status varies.
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The logic used is this: I generate a full INTL address every time. If the
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destinaztion zone != my zone, then I use the IFNA Kludge logic to set the
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.MSG file headers address to myzone/destzone, ie. the zone gate. That system
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is supposed to know how to handle INTL lines.
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The above was two years ago, it was ssumed correctly that existing programs
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couldnt handle INTL lines, hence the split addresses. The zone gate at that
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time was presumed to be some "magical" box that would transform the .MSG
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header addresses, and cross the zone boundary, using information NOT
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CONTAINED IN THE MESSAGE! It would "know" that (for instance) Zone 2 was at
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some particular phone number, etc.
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More[Y,n,c] c
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Well, Fido, and presumably others, use the INTL line as the "real" address.
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Fido reads the .MSG header first to build an address for that message, then
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checks for the INTL line; if it exists, that is used for the source/dest
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addresses. This is done at the lowest possible level so that three level
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addresses are an integral part of Fido's addressing scheme. YOu can
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file-attach or file-request from any node to any node, interzone or
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intrazone. There is no special cases when crossing zones, just like there are
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none when crossing nets. (Imagine the clamor you'd generate if you insisted
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on "net gates" or other nonsense!)
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I am not sure if I fully understand your thread scheme. It probably doesnt
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matter at this point. I will do customization to Fido for a fee anyways, as
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long as it doesnt impact basic design criteria, and that sounds like it
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doesnt. We can talk about this later. Send me a copy in writing so's I can
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pore over it and I'll give a better guess.
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Quantity arrangements and all that
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