HI,

I am wondering if it is possible for a point to send netmail to another point that is of slightly more personal content than what you would likely type into in an Echo?

I am a ham operator who is used to talking to individuals.

73,
Alan

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Re: sending a message to someone
By: Alan Beck to all on Sun Jan 31 2021 09:18 pm

I am wondering if it is possible for a point to send netmail to another point that is of slightly more personal content than what you would likely type into in an Echo?

I am a ham operator who is used to talking to individuals.

Sure, that is the main point of fidonet and I suppose othernets too. You should be able to route that mail through your BOSS node, or you might be able to deliver it directly to the node if your mailer knows about that node.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 31 Jan 2021, Alan Ianson said the following...

I am wondering if it is possible for a point to send netmail to anoth point that is of slightly more personal content than what you would l type into in an Echo?

I am a ham operator who is used to talking to individuals.

Sure, that is the main point of fidonet and I suppose othernets too. You should be able to route that mail through your BOSS node, or you might
be able to deliver it directly to the node if your mailer knows about
that node.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

And you can always use pgp in netmail if you wanted to make sure nobody
can snoop on your message along the way.


Jay
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I heard of PGP but never used it.

I guess I just enter an email to someone and do so in Netmail.

I will give someone a shout, see what happens.

Alan

On 31 Jan 2021, Alan Ianson said the following...

I am wondering if it is possible for a point to send netmail to

anoth AB> point that is of slightly more personal content than what you
would l AB> type into in an Echo?

I am a ham operator who is used to talking to individuals.

Sure, that is the main point of fidonet and I suppose othernets too. You
should be able to route that mail through your BOSS node, or you might
be able to deliver it directly to the node if your mailer knows about
that node.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512

And you can always use pgp in netmail if you wanted to make sure nobody can snoop on your message along the way.

Jay -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Hello Jay!

** On Sunday 31.01.21 - 21:37, Jay Harris wrote to Alan Beck:

And you can always use pgp in netmail if you wanted to make
sure nobody can snoop on your message along the way.

No guarantee that it would get delivered. Not many systems fly
the ENC flag.

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On 01 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...

And you can always use pgp in netmail if you wanted to make
sure nobody can snoop on your message along the way.

No guarantee that it would get delivered. Not many systems fly
the ENC flag.

ENC This node accepts inbound encrypted mail and will route it
like other mail

I'm having trouble understanding what there would be to support. For PGP you're just pasting a blob of ascii text into a netmail. I don't think it would be treated any differently than a normal netmail, unless it's maybe a size limitation. In that case, Mystic anyway, will split the message up into multiple parts, 1/3, 2/3 & 3/3.

Was the ENC flag intended for some other purpose?


Jay

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