Subj : Telnet Vs SSH
To   : Jon Watson
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Nov 03 2004 09:51 am

 JW> OK, cool. So...before I go jumping into my code.....

 JW> For the sake of argument, am I required to keep all origin
 JW> lines, or just the one starting with the '*'?

on your own system, the tearline and everything after it can be torn off and 
not displayed at all... that information, however, may be needed to be stored 
somewhere so that it might be used with a reply to get the reply back to the 
originator (ie: private netmail reply)...

it has been common practise to retain that info as well as the control line 
info and simply not display the control line info unless the user specifically 
toggled it on...

by not retaining that info, users can't tell if the message is from someone 
local (on the same board) or in some far away place... this is one reason why 
it has been kept and displayed to the users...

)\/(ark
* Origin: (1:3634/12)

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