Subj : Re: Blam BBS List question
To   : Avon
From : alterego
Date : Wed May 27 2020 13:15:50

  Re: Re: Blam BBS List question
  By: Avon to The Godfather on Wed May 27 2020 02:32 pm

 Av> I'm not honestly sure and will need to try and read up on this. I have
 Av> been (and I think incorrectly) been using the ITN flag to note this but I
 Av> think that flag is really only for use to signal a Telnet based mailer on
 Av> the port stated. 

That actually may also be the right place for this.

Would somebody have a telnet mailer and BBS on different ports? Most telnet mailers (that I am aware of anyway), use a "press ESC to go to the BBS" type function (and said BBS probably cant handle direct telnet anyway). And anybody who didnt have a mailer, would connect that port to the telnetable BBS anyway.

The only problem that may arise is somebody using a telnet mailer, who was trying to crash somebody else, and that mailer may attempt to connect to it if it saw the ITN flag for that node. I'm thinking the chance of this happening is low - and in theory not a problem if all netmail is routed. Doesnt help for scenarios with file requests though - but then isnt their a flag to indicate file requests are possible....

(I'm thinking it might be useful to use the nodelist as a "database" of how to telnet to anybody's BBS - which then things like Spectre's webring could use it in addition to what TG is trying to do... :)

Hmm... :)

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