On Sun, 06 Mar 2016, Stephen Walsh wrote to Joacim Melin:

 JM> Amibinkd does not care about poll files with hexadecimal names.
 JM> Instead, this is the way to do it:
 SW> [...]
 JM> The file 2.203.0.0. flo will be deleted after every poll and this 
 JM> has to be created again for the next poll to work properly.

 SW> So rudy has hard coded it to use "Amiga Style Outbound" (ASO). 

apparently...

 SW> This option is also present in the normal binkd sample config
 SW> files. 

yup!

 SW> This goes back to the day's of when the amiga range of FTN 
 SW> software was first  developed.

IIRC, it was one of the first mailer platforms to use LFNs, too ;) 

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