*** Quoting Ward Dossche from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

> NC's are not supposed to block unlisted nodes.  Thats a primary 'do not
> do that' thing many NC's got stupid about and did anyways.  NC's have to
> be unblocked so as to accept new nodes.
WD>  
WD> I would like to expand that to "any *C" for a variety of reasons.

That would be my general first thought as well.  'LO' is a false sense of
¨security anyways.  Long ago, before I was doing more than end node and
such, i ¨recall a Z1 thing called 'SO' which i have never seen documented. 
It was ¨'session password only' connection related.  i do not know if was
used outside ¨Z1 nor do i know if it was common in Z1.  It was 1989 when I
first heard of it. ¨I do not recall hearing of it after 1993 or so.

I remember 'SO' only due to some local echo storm when a *C was reputed to
be ¨using that configuration.  They pretty much got told it was not an
appropriate ¨setting for any *C.
                                       xxcarol

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