Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (066)
To   : Nodelist Police Commissioner
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Mar 06 2020 22:21:00

Hello Nodelist,

On Friday March 06 2020 22:09, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> Versions of MakeNl that allow "-Unpublished-" without "Pvt"
 MvdV>> have been available for well over a decade. Even for OS/2...
 MvdV>> It is a mystery to me why the powers that be have not
 MvdV>> "encouraged" the NCs to fase out the use of all zero fake
 MvdV>> telephone numbers yet...

 NC> Disinterest and incompetence probably...

Probably. :(

 NC>>> I don't get a BBS, or maybe it expects a ssh connection for the
 NC>>> BBS?

 MvdV>> Possibly.

 NC> I tried to make an ssh connection and that worked (it didn't care
 NC> about the password I gave). After that the mystic bbs user login
 NC> procedure was initiated over the ssh connection...

Unusual. What is the point of ssh over teknet if the password is ignored?

 MvdV>> In either case: if it is not a mailer that one can connect to,
 MvdV>> it does not belong in the nodelist.

 NC> Indeed.

Many still do not seem to understand that the nodelist is not a BBS list....


Cheers, Michiel

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