On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> i had thought that keeping the XA flag in the standard position in 
 ml> the entry and placing the XW flag after the INA and/or IBN flags 
 ml> might work but rereading the documents involved doesn't seem to 
 ml> indicate that this would be recognized and acted on in the desired 
 ml> manner...

 MvdV> Actually I don't recall ever having any software that acted on 
 MvdV> the freq flags. I never had software tell me "hey, you can't 
 MvdV> freq from that system, it does not carry the right flag!". 
 MvdV> AFAIK, file requests are send out blindly, in hope the other 
 MvdV> side will respond.

AFAIK, my frontdoor never had any problems sending FREQs or FUPDs to any system
and getting the file or a notice that the file was unavailable or had not been
updated... i've never known it to send FUPDs to systems that couldn't handle
them and FREQs were always sent using the format that the remote system
supported...

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