Hello mark!

Wednesday July 17 2002 17:21, you wrote to me:

 NW>> Considering the nodelist can only contain speeds up to 9600

 ml> where do you get that "can only contain" from??

Dunno. ;-) Clearly, I was mistaken.

Looking through the current nodelist suggests that the maority of nodes
have made the same mistake as I did. Try counting the number of entries
with "9600" but also with flags indicating higher capabilities. I
wonder how this came about?

 NW>> the other modem flags are far more useful for that.

 ml> that's all fine and good... however, if i never want to directly
 ml> contact a system that can only do 9600, then i can block that or
 ml> whatever...

Not very reliable considering the above. ;-)

 NW>> I also need to seperate calls according to the receivers
 NW>> capability (ISDN, V34, V32, etc.) and I do it with those
 NW>> flags.

 ml> show me which of those flags is the one that indicates 9600?

V32.

 ml> my POINT in this was to prove to you that the SPEED field ~is~ useful
 ml> and not there just for human convienience...

It's not very useful if most nodes have it wrong. :-(


Be lucky,

Neil

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