[nos-bbs] case sensitivity of MID/BID - discussion needed

[Michael E Fox - N6MEF]

O.K.  Got it.  Thanks for the clarification.

Michael
N6MEF


> 
> Michael,
> 
> the wrong side is not that of FBB which force the change to upper case
> or the JNOS2 which force the change to lower case but it is on the BPQ
> side which do not treat or do not manage/understand the fact that if my
> message arrive from a side as 12345_i0ojj and in another side arrive as
> 12345_I0OJJ it is the same identical message and so the second one
> joining that system must be discarded i.e. 'FBB response FS -'
> 
> Observing from another angle, the rule is that: saying 12345_i0ojj
> or saying 12345_I0OJJ *should represent exactly the same thing* and
> NOT two different items: any different interpretation of that rule
> do not make sense for *our BBS purposes*, or also dangerous: imagine
> the collapse produced by a multi-message declined as per my previous
> unix/linux example :)
> 
> Now, FBB and JNOS2 must not be changed at all because if they receive
> from different sides the following MIB/BID:
> 
> 12345_i0ojj
> 12345_I0OJJ
> 12345_I0ojj
> 12345_I0Ojj
> 
> do not consider FOUR different messages but exactly the same message
> so only the first will be accepted on the PMS and any other joined
> later discarded.
> 
> Hope that this msg is a bit less academic :)
> 
> gus
> 
> 
> 
>