Subj : [--- SLIP/PPP FTP ? ---]
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : WINSTON SMITH
Date : Sun Sep 03 2000 08:06 am

->> The host BBS is doing the actual connect to the network for you
->> using it's own resident apps.  Does this sound accurate?
 
-> Your earlier message said that you received a login message from
-> Synchronet (which you had referred to as BBS software?). 
-> Now you say not. 
 
The BBS is not connecting me to the network.  I have to --REACH-- the
BBS --THROUGH-- the network.  The BBS has no dialup.  The BBS is at the
terminus of my connection route.  I login to the server and I address
the BBS through the server.  By "login", do you mean the act of making a
connection whose activity is officially logged, or do you mean
you must actually see a prompt stating "login:".  When I connect with
FTP services, the log runs, it sends me a message, and it asks for USER
and PASSword ACK's.  It also sends a banner, the FTP message, but there
is no "login" prompt.  Also, the modem pool server does prompt me for a
login, but not with the word "login".  So either I log in twice, I don't
log in at all, or I log into one machine of your choosing and not the
other, but I see no prompt saying "login" when I attempt to connect to
either the modem pool server or to telnet to the FTP services port of
the BBS.  You tell me how you want me to say it and I'll say it the way
you like it.  As far as I can see, what one calls it is a matter of
semantics....
 




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