JB>>> what's a node  if the same system is in the nodelist three
 JB>>> times with three different phone numbers (maybe with different
 JB>>> brands of modem) but all attached to the same messagebase is it
 JB>>> one node or three?

 ml>> a messagebase does NOT a node make...

 JB> true, do you intend to answer the question?  I'll rephrase it
 JB> in more general language, if three SLF nodelist lines are
 JB> functionally equivalent as far as the handling of mail, FREQs
 JB> etc sent to them but inly differ in their conection mechanisms
 JB> (mailer type, transport mendiam, etc)  are they three nodes ot
 JB> is it one?

i would have to say yes, whether it is one machine or more than one that is
actually processing the data behind the connection type... i'm thinking of
a network where one machine is doing POTS and another doing IP and they
both drop their inbounds into a central directory and maybe a third machine
processes it all...

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