Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (302)
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Sun Oct 31 2021 08:40:39

Hello, Andrew Leary.
On 30/10/2021 23.04 you wrote:

 AL> Hello Michiel!
 AL> 29 Oct 21 14:50, you wrote to Nodelist Police Commissioner:
 MV>> The MO flag is a relic from the POTS age. In the IP age it does not
 MV>> mean al that much since any BBS will not be on the same "channel" as
 MV>> the mailer.
 AL> Not necessarily.  I know of several nodes that have a mailer answering Telnet
 AL> connections via a virtual modem and having the ability to pass a "human"
 AL> caller to a BBS.  This was fairly common with nodes using SIO or SIO2K under
 AL> OS/2.

This is still happening at 2:221/360. :)

 Tommi

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