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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