mark lewis,
01-Feb-97 14:37:16, mark lewis wrote to Roger Nelson
          Subject: OS/2 BBS
 RN>>> Anyone know what happened to the OS/2 Shareware BBS in 
 RN>>> Fairfax, VA? It's not in this week's NODELIST, but it was in 
 RN>>> the previous one. The Fido address was 1:109/347. 
 ml>> if it was gone, it's back now... 
The new nodelist was corrected since the original post.
 ml>> ===== snip ===== 
 ml>> Searching nodelist.031 for pete norloff 
 ml>> List Start ++++++++++ 1:109/347.0 OS/2 Shareware, Fairfax VA, 
 ml>> Pete Norloff 1-703-385-5268, 9600, CM,XA,ZYX,V32b,V42b 
 ml>> 1:109/357.0 OS/2 Shareware, Fairfax VA, Pete Norloff 
 ml>> 1-703-385-5268, 9600, CM,XA,H16,V32b,V42b +++++++++ List Stop 
 ml>> ===== snip ===== 
 ml> what i just noticed and find hard to believe is that both 
 ml> nodes have the same phone number listed but one is flagged as 
 ml> a ZyXEL modem (ZYX) and the other is flagged as a USR Courier 
 ml> HST 16.8 (H16)... 
 ml> no way that is possible that i'm aware of... 
It's called "Roll-Over".  Pete Norloff has a lot of lines and
modems, each with it's own phone number.  But he also has the TeleCo
feature to reroute an incoming call to another number if the first
(etc.) line is busy.  So when you call 1-703-385-5268 you might
actually reach any of many different modems.  Both node addresses
and all the lines/modems are connected to the same BBS and will
react about the same.  If you want to pick a particular modem or get
connected to one of his faster modems, then you should talk to Pete
about a subscription.  A long time ago I was a subscriber there and
saw a list of "subscriber only" phone numbers.
There was a time awhile back someone in Fidonet decided the nodelist
was too big.  So many SysOps that had multi-line systems with a
different node address and phone number for each line/node were more
or less asked to change their listing.  Although I still know at
least 1 SysOp that has 16 different node addresses and 16 different
phone numbers all to the same BBS.
     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  NetMail 1:109/921.1
                                  AdeptNet 55:730/101
                                  andy@shentel.net
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