Subj : Filegate links
To   : Alan Ianson
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Jan 14 2022 06:59 am


 On 2022 Jan 13 16:31:48, you wrote to me:

 ml>> not sure who this one is, why it was sent to my system instead of the
 ml>> FDN manager, and something else i just spaced out on while writing
 ml>> this message :(

 AI> That is strange. It appears someone else is hatching files in the
 AI> WINPOINT area with a different filename.

that's what i was pointing out ;)

locating and digging into the Z2PNT list, i find that person to be Tim Schattkowsky... i'm not sure of his relationship with WinPoint or the WINPOINT FDN but i have noted his name in a few echos in recent times...

 ml>> the only other question is why are we carrying beta programs?

 AI> The Winpoint program has been called a public beta ever since I came
 AI> across it somewhere around 2005 but the software is fairly mature at
 AI> this point.

i can understand that...

 AI> The Public Beta seems to be missing from the latest versions
 AI> description so I think that has been dropped now.

interesting...

 ml>> we went through all this a couple of years ago when a particular Z2
 ml>> system was hatching numerous beta updates of the same files almost
 ml>> every day and chewing up everyone's drive space...

 AI> That doesn't happen in the WINPOINT area. I think I have hatched three
 AI> files in that area. The last two were a day apart because there were
 AI> important changes.

ok, i don't have a problem with that... i just didn't want to see similar things like we saw coming in from Gert's system a few years back...

)\/(ark

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