On Monday February 08 2021 15:50, you wrote to me:
SM> I will not argue. Some ideas have serious flaws. It is for this reason SM> that I ask questions so often.
Like I am doing now about your idea of having Ping robots honour the @REPLYTO: kludge.
MvdV>> 1) Why not just put such a request in plain text instead of a MvdV>> kludge to be processed by a robot?
SM> As far as I know, most mail editors (like GoldEd) successfully SM> recognize it and this is very convenient.
1) Golded is not a Ping robot. The question was about Ping robots and @REPLYTO
2) Golded's use is for e-mail gating. It may be useful for that, but e-mail gating is not part of Fidonet.
MvdV>> 2) What does this calendar thing have to do with ping? MvdV>> The question was "should a ping robot take int account the MvdV>> @REPLYTO kludge?"
SM> Yes. I just gave an example of using this kludge not for gating, but SM> solely for convenience in Fido.
It does not convince me it is useful, let alone useful for Ping robots and certainly not that the usefulness outweighs Murphy art 42.
MvdV>> 3) Are yuo familiar with art. 42 of Muprpy's Law?
SM> Everything that cannot happen happens. ;)
No. that's art 41. ;-)
Murphy's law art 42: If it can be abused, it will be abused,
