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echo: ftsc_public
to: ALEXEY VISSARIONOV
from: NICHOLAS BOEL
date: 2014-10-08 16:45:00
subject: Re: FTSC-5001 question

Hello Alexey,

On 08 Oct 14 17:13, Alexey Vissarionov wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 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.

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

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

Thanks for the information. That still doesn't change the fact that people
shouldn't use ITN for a nodelist flag if they run a BBS on the telnet port. The
ITN flag is for a completely different purpose, which you mention above.

Regards,
Nick

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