Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (057)
To   : Nodelist Police Commissioner
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Feb 26 2021 15:35:58

Hello Nodelist,

On Friday February 26 2021 13:26, you wrote to me:

 NC>>> After which a BBS starts. Is NetFoss a mailer that can exchange
 NC>>> mail files?

 MvdV>> AFAIK, NetFoss is a modem emulator. It allows software designed to
 MvdV>> be used with a POTS modem to connect via the Internet. So another
 MvdV>> fuck up. There is no mailer, just a BBS at the telnet port.

 NC> So there could be something like frontdoor behind NetFoss, that either
 NC> accepts other mailers, or switches to the bbs. (But according to Tommy
 NC> there is no mailer).

Certainly. NetFoss looks like a modem, so it should work with anything that is made to work with a modem. It will work with FontDoor. But then you would have seen that because FrontDoor is what answers the call and then forwards to the BBS if it detects a human caller. As it is, there is no mailer, just a BBS.

Whatever is shows, it shows that the sysop in question is not infalleble...

 NC>>> So this region has some reorganisation to do. They aren't big
 NC>>> nets, so they could opt to fold them into a single net, but that
 NC>>> probably won't happen...

 MvdV>> Probably not indeed. Over there they don't seem to like
 MvdV>> simplyfying the net structure...

 NC> It would mean giving nodes a new node number. They choose the road of
 NC> less resistance...

Reorganising the net structure would have revealed the dead wood. Path of les resistance indeed...


Cheers, Michiel

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