MP> Call me ignorant, but just curious: why would we want internet
 MP> addresses in the nodelist?

 MP> They are not dialable, and there is no way to contact them
 MP> directly, so aside from having a name/address lookup file,
 MP> what benefit does it add to Fido? Why not just have a "I'm in
 MP> fido, but you can reach me at..." text file?

i know this is an old message i'm replying to but my system is a perfect
example. it "dials" my feed's internet ip number and connects
"directly" over the internet. i do not use FTP, transx or any of
the tunneling type transfer programs. my mailer talks to his mailer and
they handle the transfers exactly like they would if i had made a phone
call over POTS lines.

my view is that the mailers already know how to send the files, how to tell
what's already been sent or received and even how to resume an aborted
transfer so why not use them instead of reinventing the wheel. look at the
ftp reget function that is new on the market. hehe... shades of
zmodem-recovery with xmodem xfer style ;-)

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