On 2017 Aug 11 17:08:58, you wrote to me:

 ml>> radius and derivitives have a bug dealing with U,Txy flags...
 ml>> specifically that they should not be UFlags in this day in time...

 PQ> That is an interesting POV on a standard that was in widespread use for
 PQ> over a decade, and which was rescinded/modified to fix a clerical fault in
 PQ> FTSC administrative requirements.

what??? what i'm saying is that U,Txy flags should be just Txy with no U...
the problem with radius and others is/was that they insisted on the U or
they would not properly process the flag, IIRC... Txy hasn't been a user
flag since it was approved many years back after it went through a testing
period as a U flag...

 PQ> Fortunately it is not binding on individual system override settings.

there is that...

 PQ>>> Nevertheless, can't binkD be *stalled* for a node by utilizing *.?sy
 PQ>>> flags?

 ml>> that is one possible solution... one would need to look at
 ml>> traditional binkleyterm utilities to see what they did for things
 ml>> like this... SOB and SOSOB are two utils that may provide an

oops... that should be BONK and SOB (Son of BONK)...

 ml>> answer... too bad that so many binkleyterm related tools are simply
 ml>> no longer available and/or are otherwise forgotten in the mists of
 ml>> time :(

 PQ> Dude, we're talking binkD only.

it is a BSO mailer and should follow standard BSO ops... BONK and SOB can
be used by all BSO systems...

 PQ> Pavel Gulchouck (2:463/68) wrote in the binkD echo back on Mon, 25 Jan
 PQ> 16...

 PQ> "*.csy are used a similar way to *.bsy but they set on start calling
 PQ> node, before handshake. It prevents simultaneous calls to the remote
 PQ> node by several binkd processes."

yeah... using a BSY semaphore is fine... that's what i was saying about
looking at BONK and SOB to see what they do when they are processing
existing waiting outbound mail... BONK and SOB are also used to
"qualify" mail for sending at specific times in a similar manner
to frontdoor's schedule qualifier stuff for mail... in other words, the
files are named different so that the mail cnn't see them but at, say,
0200, BONK or SOB are run and will see that you want to send to system
x:y/z so it will rename those files for that system so the mailer can see
them now... actually scheduling and qualifying outbound mail for sending...
unfortunately if x:y/z polls you before their mail is qualified, they won't
get it since the mailer cannot see it due to the file names... that's
different than frontdoor which handles it all internally and does provide
unqualified mail to polling systems...

yeah yeah yeah, i know but i cannot help really really really liking the
intelligence that frontdoor has built in compared to the rocks and stones
that binkleyterm and most of its derivitives plod along with...

 PQ> That is _the_ solution in binkD usage canon.  I just don't know of
 PQ> anyone who uses it (.csy)... yet.  Nudge, nudge.  ;-)

the only BSO stuff i currently use is mainly a poll file creator written in
4DOS and bash... i couldn't get the 4OS2 side to process the script
properly... something about missing functions and other functions working
differently... anyway, the script just touches or creates ?LO semaphores
once it validates the address the poll is for...

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