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Subj: KQOI > Re: BPQ R Line
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From: N1URO@N1URO.#CCT.CT.USA.NOAM
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Mark et al;
> The number in the R Line that appears to be the Bid number is not actually
> that...it is the message number in that stations mailbox..
Correct, which is what I stated to VE7ASS.
> When the station
> is the one originating the mesage, of course they will be the same, But
> when forwarding a message originated by someone else, the number shown will
> be the number of the message in thr forwarding stations mailbox and will be
> different from the Bid #.
Now this is not always true as we learned earlier this year with JNOS which
is why having the actual BID in the R: line important.
When I0OJJ was trying to send me mail, he did so without sending a bid, even
if HIS system was the originating station. JNOS' bid = NULL when it was
presenting the mail yet DID exist in the R: line which then made it
easier to help debug (and for me to provide a patch). Not providing a bid in
the R: line would have made it that much more difficult if not almost
impossible to verify his message # being the originating station matched
the true bid... this is why it's important to maintain a bid in the R: line.
Had his JNOS failed to maintain the bid number I wouldn't be able to follow
a proper line of integrity as far as the message itself is concerned.
Do we not care about integrity on the bbs network anymore?
You can't compare the weight between 12oz of Pop to 12oz of Beer if one never
places the beer on the other side of the scale.
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