Hello Kostie,

On Saturday April 11 2015 03:03, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Setting a system to only accept secure sessions is annoying. If
 MV>> one does not want to accept calls from other nodelisted systems
 MV>> except for a select group, one should not be in the nodelist.

 KM> Sorry, I have to disagree here. I can see plenty of reasons one might
 KM> only want to accept secure sessions, especially if one is a major hub.

Of course. I too can see plenty of reasons why someone would want the benefit
of membership but reject the liabilities. I for one, would very much not to pay
taxes, but enjoy the benefit of citizeship nonetheless.

Adverising a method of connection in the public nodelist but rejecting the
connect nonetheless is annoying because it can impose undue cost on those
attempting to connect. This certainly was true in the POTS age, and it still
holds for those who are on e metered IP connection.

Imposing undue cost on others is and always has been a big nono in Fidonet.

 KM> Otherwise there's really nothing to stop someone from configuring a
 KM> system to dump data in while spoofing someone else's node #.

Secure and unsecure inbounds were invented to take care of that.


Cheers, Michiel

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