Good ${greeting_time}, Nicholas!

07 Oct 2014 19:37:16, you wrote to Paul Hayton:

 PH>> So for a system offering Telnet and Binkp it's worth using
 PH>> INA:xx.xx.xx followed by IBN,ITN - sound right?
 NB> Except "telnet" or "ITN" in this case does not mean you offer
 NB> telnet access to your BBS. Some mailers offer telnet as a method
 NB> of transferring messages/files, kind of like binkp does.

ITN means "ifcico with Telnet-style connection control", unlike "raw ifcico"
marked with IFC flag.

All known IFC mailers ignore incoming Telnet control codes, and none of them
actually send those codes. So, the ITN flag may be considered as an obsolete
alias for IFC.


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