On 2018 Jul 02 17:31:50, you wrote to me:

 MV>>> Classic POTS mailers can't "dial internet numbers" anyway. They
 MV>>> can only dial numbers on the public telephone system.

 MV> By definition.

the inclusion of "POTS" is the only reason... no traditional FTN mailer
identified itself as a "POTS Mailer"...

 ml>> my FrontDoor highly disagrees with you... it depends on what the
 ml>> FOSSIL and a possible additional OS level shim can do... consider a
 ml>> FOSSIL driver that speaks telnet and no shim is needed ;)

 MV> If your FrontDoor needs a fossil to dial POTS nodes, then it is
incomplete.

no, it is not... no moreso than a BBS that requires a FOSSIL driver...
FrontDoor and RemoteAccess BBS both require a FOSSIL driver to communicate with
real and virtual serial devices...

 MV> My InterMail did not need a fossil. It could deal with the UART all by
 MV> itself.

interesting... so you didn't have to load BNU or x00? if that's the case,
that's the first major difference between intermail and frontdoor since the
code-splitting...

 MV> If your FrontDoor can dial internet nodes with an advanced fossil,
 MV> then the combination is more than a classic POTS mailer.

there is no ""advanced FOSSIL""... there is the FOSSIL... it talks to the COM
ports, real and virtual... there is no difference between the COM ports as far
as the mailer or BBS are concerned...

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