Hello opendos{at}delorie.com!

20 Jan 04 09:44, Gary Welles wrote to OpenDos:

 GW> With the nodelist being all telephone numbers, if FidoNet is part
 GW> of a network, it's the telephone network.

I am the host of my network and the only member with a phone number in my
nodelisting (alongside my IP information).  The rest of my network accesses
Fido via the Internet using analog modem, cable modem, or DSL. Some are
"always on" and can accept a connection from me whenever I
initiate it.  Others use temporary connections and must initiate a
connection with me (and/or other Fido nodes) to pick up what is held for
them.  In =no= case, are modem-to-modem connections using only Fidonet
protocols made between myself and the members of my own network.

 GW>     "FidoNet is a point-to-point and store-and-forward email WAN
 GW>     which uses modems on the direct-dial telephone network."

Substitute "The Internet" for "FidoNet" in the
statement above and it is equally accurate/inaccurate.  Personal messaging
("email") is just one of many services available from both
networks.  Accessing the telephone network with an analog modem device is
just one of multiple methods of making a connection to a physical layer
that is common to both networks.

> PATH: 2320/105 261/38 123/500 106/2000 140/1 382/61

This is the sequence of Fidonet nodes by which your message reached my
system. Of the six addresses listed, only the first two do =not= publish IP
information in their nodelist entry for the given address.  The sysop of
the 2nd system also has alternate AKA addresses which do.

.\\ike

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