So, this came up in my Facebook feed today.

"A woman allegedly gave her ex-lover a cooler that held the deceased remains of
her miscarried fetus, saying, "here's your kid."".

I am not sure what I find scarier..

That she was only charged with harrasment (I would think this might be crossing
the line into stalking. Though since the child aborted naturaly I guess there
was no implied threat.

or

That the majority of the comments actually side with her, mostly because he did
not believe she was pregnant.

However, with her obvious tenuous hold on mental health, I don't think I would believe her on face value either.

What do you think? Do you think the charges should have been more severe?

Do you think she lost the plot?

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What do you think? Do you think the charges should have been more severe?

Not necessarily, but...

Do you think she lost the plot?

... her mental health should probably be evaluated. I would also wonder
what the relationship was like, i.e. maybe he was mentally abusive, but her reaction is extreme.


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Hey Mike!

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:05:00 +0000, you wrote:

What do you think? Do you think the charges should have been more
severe?

Not necessarily, but...

Do you think she lost the plot?

... her mental health should probably be evaluated. I would also
wonder what the relationship was like, i.e. maybe he was mentally
abusive, but her reaction is extreme.

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Not sure what's going on here, but it seems these posts (RugRat seems to be doing it also) are either being posted in Dovenet and sent to Fidonet as well (or being posted in Fidonet and sent to Dovenet, not sure). Are you possibly using the same echotag? "DEBATE" is a Fidonet echotag, I use "DOVE-DEB" for Dovenet's Debate echo, but one could use any prefix for Dovenet to separate the two.

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Re: I think we have lost the
By: Mike Powell to RUG RAT on Thu Oct 16 2025 09:05 am

What do you think? Do you think the charges should have
been more severe?

Not necessarily, but...

i didnt look at the article but that could be about 3 different charges in regards to mishandlilng/disrespecting/abusing a corpse.
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Re: I think we have lost the
By: Accession to Mike Powell on Thu Oct 16 2025 04:48 pm

Hey Mike!

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:05:00 +0000, you wrote:

What do you think? Do you think the charges should have

been more

severe?

Not necessarily, but...

Do you think she lost the plot?

... her mental health should probably be evaluated. I would also
wonder what the relationship was like, i.e. maybe he was mentally abusive, but her reaction is extreme.

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Not sure what's going on here, but it seems these posts
(RugRat seems to be doing it also) are either being posted
in Dovenet and sent to Fidonet as well (or being posted in
Fidonet and sent to Dovenet, not sure). Are you possibly
using the same echotag? "DEBATE" is a Fidonet echotag, I use
"DOVE-DEB" for Dovenet's Debate echo, but one could use any
prefix for Dovenet to separate the two.

i think people should also use the practice of keeping data files in separate directories.
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Not sure what's going on here, but it seems these posts (RugRat seems to be doing it also) are either being posted in Dovenet and sent to Fidonet as well (or being posted in Fidonet and sent to Dovenet, not sure). Are you possibly using the same echotag? "DEBATE" is a Fidonet echotag, I use "DOVE-DEB" for Dovenet's Debate echo, but one could use any prefix for Dovenet to separate th
two.

I am posting to this thread on the FIDO side.

My tags are as follows:

Internal FIDO Tags
FIDO: DEBATEF DEBATE
DOVE: DOVE-DEB DOVE-DEBATE

So they should be separate here.

I figured he crossposted the original, but I did see his response to me
come through once in each echo, both with a "Z1" origin line. As there have recently been quite a few posts in Dove Debate that have not "crossed over," I wonder if maybe it is a system that just recently added one of the networks
(or echoes).

FWIW, this post from you only came to me via the Dove side.

Anyone getting the DOVE echoes from me via ftn are using a Z723 address,
which I picked because your system also uses that zone. ;)


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Re: I think we have lost the
By: Dumas Walker to ACCESSION on Thu Oct 16 2025 08:18 pm

Not sure what's going on here, but it seems these posts (RugRat
seems to be doing it also) are either being posted in Dovenet
and sent to Fidonet as well (or being posted in Fidonet and sent
to Dovenet, not sure). Are you possibly using the same echotag?
"DEBATE" is a Fidonet echotag, I use "DOVE-DEB" for Dovenet's
Debate echo, but one could use any prefix for Dovenet to separate
th two.

i can't believe people do this stuff. it's not like ftn is hard. someone who knows nothing about it can set it up correctly.
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Hey Dumas!

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:18:58 -0500, you wrote:

I am posting to this thread on the FIDO side.

My tags are as follows:

Internal FIDO Tags
FIDO: DEBATEF DEBATE
DOVE: DOVE-DEB DOVE-DEBATE

So they should be separate here.

This one I'm replying to is via Dovenet, with no PATH. You can see your QWK tagline at the bottom. The one that came to me via Fidonet is in my BAD area, since I don't carry that echo, but Wilfred likes to open the flood gates to my system thinking I auto-add areas or something (I don't, and on purpose).

I figured he crossposted the original, but I did see his response to me
come through once in each echo, both with a "Z1" origin line. As there
have recently been quite a few posts in Dove Debate that have not
"crossed over," I wonder if maybe it is a system that just recently
added one of the networks (or echoes).

For Short name, QWK name, Internal code, and Fidonet Area tag I use DOVE-DEB, But, I'd assume your prefix "DOVE-DEBATE" /should/ work, too. Unless maybe it's not..?

FWIW, this post from you only came to me via the Dove side.

Correct. I had this happen to me a very long time ago, and made the changes to separate the two. Using the default config for Dovenet when setting it up, as well as hooking up to Fidonet, you end up cross posting messages by using the same message base files.

Anyone getting the DOVE echoes from me via ftn are using a Z723 address, which I picked because your system also uses that zone. ;)

Here is the PATH from one of Rug Rats original posts on the Fido side, and I replied to one of your messages that came in via Fido with the PATH there also:

@PATH: 135/250 115 3634/12 2320/105 229/426 218/700 840 770/1 280/464

So it seems your address is in both, and the one you posted starts at your system, and the one Rug Rat posted goes through your system. That could mean that Rug Rat is just posting to the fido side, and your system is the one bringing it to Dovenet.

Otherwise, I can't see any other correlation between the two PATHs that stands out..

All good, figured I'd point it out so the appropriate parties can look into it.

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Hey MRO!

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:17:00 -0500, you wrote:

i can't believe people do this stuff. it's not like ftn is hard.
someone who knows nothing about it can set it up correctly.

It's not really a configuration problem on the sysop's end. It's two separate networks that, by default, use the same internal code and possibly even Fidonet areatag (when a prefix is not in use). Anyone who sets the two up will come across this, unless they start out right away by changing the internal code and using a prefix for the areatag, for one network or the other, so they aren't the same.

Regards,
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Re: I think we have lost the
By: Accession to Dumas Walker on Fri Oct 17 2025 04:40 pm

Correct. I had this happen to me a very long time ago, and made the
changes to separate the two. Using the default config for Dovenet
when setting it up, as well as hooking up to Fidonet, you end up
cross posting messages by using the same message base files.

that's why it's best to keep things in their own directories. it's just messy to have it all go in one area.
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Re: I think we have lost the
By: Accession to MRO on Fri Oct 17 2025 05:04 pm

i can't believe people do this stuff. it's not like ftn is hard.
someone who knows nothing about it can set it up correctly.

It's not really a configuration problem on the sysop's end. It's two separate networks that, by default, use the same internal code and
possibly even Fidonet areatag (when a prefix is not in use). Anyone

i think it really is a configuration problem. and maybe something that needs to be addressed because it's happened so much. people to need to pay attention to what they are doing when they are connected to networked msg boards. and like i said before, having all the different msg areas in the same place is messy.
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Re: I think we have lost the
By: MRO to Accession on Fri Oct 17 2025 08:42 pm

i think it really is a configuration problem. and maybe something
that needs to be addressed because it's happened so much. people
to need to pay attention to what they are doing when they are

and i know it makes it easier to run fixsmb and chksmb when they are all muddled together. but it's still easy to do it when it's separate.
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Re: I think we have lost the
By: Rug Rat to All on Wed Oct 15 2025 10:34 am

What do you think? Do you think the charges should have been more severe?

Do you think she lost the plot?

It is hard to say, because information in social media is completely distorted more often than not.

In Spain she would get charged for misshandling biological human tissue of "meaningful entity". Long story short, if an Hospital amputates a hand because of medical reasons, you cannot go out on the streets with it showing it off to everybody.


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Internal FIDO Tags
FIDO: DEBATEF DEBATE
DOVE: DOVE-DEB DOVE-DEBATE

So they should be separate here.

This one I'm replying to is via Dovenet, with no PATH. You can see your QWK tagline at the bottom.

You are replying to my post to you here because I only posted it here as I
have not been seeing your posts in Fido DEBATE, *only* here, so I wouldn't likely respond to them on *FIDO*. ;)

As you see above, I am not using the same files, tags, or the default
config. When I check my Fido DEBATE and Dove DEBATE areas, as a user, I am *not* seeing the same messsages, either.

Unless a copy of sbbsecho that was compiled in July waited three months and then started treating "DEBATE" as equal to "DOVE-DEBATE," I don't see any issues on this end.


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Not sure what's going on here, but it seems these posts (RugRat
seems to be doing it also) are either being posted in Dovenet
and sent to Fidonet as well (or being posted in Fidonet and sent
to Dovenet, not sure). Are you possibly using the same echotag?
"DEBATE" is a Fidonet echotag, I use "DOVE-DEB" for Dovenet's
Debate echo, but one could use any prefix for Dovenet to separate
th two.

i can't believe people do this stuff. it's not like ftn is hard. someone who knows nothing about it can set it up correctly.

My internal codes and area tags are different here. Someone likely added
FIDO to their synchronet board and used DEBATE as their internal code for
FIDO DEBATE which, in the synchronet install, is/used to be the default internal code for this DOVE echo.

I actually can believe that someone might have made that error.

I don't use the default internal code for *either* echo here. Dove is DOVE-DEB, and FIDO is DEBATEF, and I can tell they are different just by checking what messages are in each one. DOVE DEBATE is active, where the FIDO echo very much is *not*.


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Internal FIDO Tags
FIDO: DEBATEF DEBATE
DOVE: DOVE-DEB DOVE-DEBATE

So they should be separate here.

This one I'm replying to is via Dovenet, with no PATH. You can see your QWK tagline at the bottom.

I also just confirmed, by turning off binkd, uploading my messages, confirming that the FIDOOUT event ran, and then checking /sbbs/fido/out, that no messages posted by me in this echo got bagged into FIDO DEBATE here.

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Re: I think we have lost the
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Oct 19 2025 11:32 am

My internal codes and area tags are different here. Someone likely
added FIDO to their synchronet board and used DEBATE as their
internal code for FIDO DEBATE which, in the synchronet install,
is/used to be the default internal code for this DOVE echo.

no shit.

I actually can believe that someone might have made that error.

yeah, i believe it too. people are idiots.

I don't use the default internal code for *either* echo here. Dove
is DOVE-DEB, and FIDO is DEBATEF, and I can tell they are different
just by checking what messages are in each one. DOVE DEBATE is
active, where the FIDO echo very much is *not*.

put your data files in separate directories. it's not hard.
it's better if you have a fuck ton of msg areas too.
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Re: Re: I think we have lost the
By: Dumas Walker to ACCESSION on Sun Oct 19 2025 11:39 am

Internal FIDO Tags FIDO: DEBATEF DEBATE DOVE: DOVE-DEB DOVE-DEBATE

So they should be separate here.

This one I'm replying to is via Dovenet, with no PATH. You can see
your QWK tagline at the bottom.

I also just confirmed, by turning off binkd, uploading my messages, confirming that the FIDOOUT event ran, and then checking
/sbbs/fido/out, that no messages posted by me in this echo got bagged
into FIDO DEBATE here.

i emailed the guy. i tried to contact him via his bbs but it crashed.
okay i got onto his bbs but when i was writing a msg it was just a single
line and kept overwriting. fun.

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Re: Re: I think we have lost the
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sun Oct 19 2025 06:06 pm

i emailed the guy. i tried to contact him via his bbs but it
crashed. okay i got onto his bbs but when i was writing a msg it was
just a single line and kept overwriting. fun.

okay did a test post at C-Net Amiga BBS - bbs.catracing.org 6840
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Hey Dumas!

On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:39:28 -0500, you wrote:

I also just confirmed, by turning off binkd, uploading my messages, confirming that the FIDOOUT event ran, and then checking /sbbs/fido/out, that no messages posted by me in this echo got bagged into FIDO DEBATE
here.

I believe you, It was only the two of you posting in both echos, so I had assumed too soon. Whoever cross posted it to Dovenet has the bbsid "TRANSPO" (I missed the BBSid the first time around). I have no idea who that may be, though.

Regards,
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Re: I think we have lost the
By: Accession to Dumas Walker on Sun Oct 19 2025 06:24 pm

so I had assumed too soon. Whoever cross posted it to Dovenet
has the bbsid "TRANSPO" (I missed the BBSid the first time around).
I have no idea who that may be, though.

yeah i saw that and i thought the guy was running a synchronet bbs and
linking them all up.

transpo is
148.170.167.4

central ontatario remote aka mick's place
centralontarioremote.net

it's a mystic bbs. i told the sysop.
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put your data files in separate directories. it's not hard.
it's better if you have a fuck ton of msg areas too.

I started doing that for networks I added later. You are right, it is not difficult.


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I also just confirmed, by turning off binkd, uploading my messages, confirming that the FIDOOUT event ran, and then checking /sbbs/fido/out, that no messages posted by me in this echo got bagged into FIDO DEBATE here.

I believe you, It was only the two of you posting in both echos, so I had >assumed too soon. Whoever cross posted it to Dovenet has the bbsid "TRANSPO" (I
missed the BBSid the first time around). I have no idea who that may be, >though.

That is weird that it was just us, and would sure make you think it was one
of the two of us that caused it! ;) Maybe it was just us who were posting on the FIDO side that caused that to be so, i.e. maybe the duplication was only one-way.

As there have been no messages in Fido DEBATE since May, 2024, it could
have been one-way crosslinked for a while then and no one would notice.


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Hey Dumas!

On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:11:20 -0500, you wrote:

had assumed too soon. Whoever cross posted it to Dovenet has the bbsid
"TRANSPO" (I missed the BBSid the first time around). I have no idea
who that may be, though.

That is weird that it was just us, and would sure make you think it was
one of the two of us that caused it! ;) Maybe it was just us who were posting on the FIDO side that caused that to be so, i.e. maybe the duplication was only one-way.

Most definitely! And yeah, I believe it was only the two of you in a brief discussion on the Fido side and it ended up on Dovenet. I, too, think it may have only been one way, unless somehow Synchronet is catching it and not allowing it to go back to Fido.

I would believe the latter if it were the case, since Synchronet is usually far ahead of most things Fidonet related.

As there have been no messages in Fido DEBATE since May, 2024, it could
have been one-way crosslinked for a while then and no one would notice.

No idea. I just think I'm going crazy when I read things twice. I try to purposely skip reading the legit Dovenet gated echos to Fidonet, so I only read them once. Otherwise I'm replying to the same conversation via both, depending where I read it first. ;)

Regards,
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