MvdV> Of course it can not be made mandatory. Even considering it, will MvdV> get MvdV> many feathers ruffled. That you see no reason to refuse an opportunity MvdV> is not what will get others moving. You will have to convince the MvdV> developers and their first reaction wil be: "Why should I spent time and MvdV> energy on it?". So far you have not really provided any reason how this MvdV> would be useful other than just stating your opinion.
In order to realize myself, my opinion is enough for me. ;) In order for this to be implemented elsewhere, a justification of the reason is certainly required. In any case, I have stirred up the hive enough to understand how this can be abused. For myself, I have already turned off the ability to change the recipient address of the robot's response. The only thing left is to change the name. This is what I use for my needs.
MvdV>>> 2) Golded's use is for e-mail gating.
SM>> Yes. Initially, the idea of using @REPLYTO was for the convenience of SM>> using the e-mail gate. However, practice has shown that it is also SM>> very convenient inside Fido.
MvdV> 1) So you say...
I gave an example of use not for gating. Very comfortably.
MvdV> 2) e-mail gating was useful in the days when not every Fidonet MvdV> participant had e-mail. In the POTS age I have used it myself. Now in MvdV> the days of Fido over IP, almost every member of Fdionet has an internet MvdV> connection and with an internet connection almost everyone has e-mail. MvdV> E-mail gating over Fidonet is no longer needed.
Of course, for my main workplace, I don't use an email gate. However, this does not mean that he may never be needed again. For example, one of the tg BBS users discovered the ability to send an e-mail and receive an answer to it using just a messenger on the phone.
MvdV>>> It may be useful for that, but e-mail gating is not part of MvdV>>> Fidonet.
SM>> Ok.
MvdV> So we can forget about e-mail gating in the context of PING robots MvdV> supportinge @REPLYTO.
Of course, this may be needed in the rare case when a node sysop, being on a business trip, for example, for some unknown reason, wanted to check the performance of his node using such a perverse method. However, I left this option to my ping just in case.
Have a nice night. Stas Mishchenkov.
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