Re: Nodelist Flags
  By: Paul Quinn to Paul Hayton on Sat May 30 2020 18:45:48


 PQ> I think we should be considering your involvement in another FTN.

my thoughts, too...

 PQ>  In a non-Fidonet situation you might revert to the older TEL flag.
 PQ>  E.g. TEL:23232.

that's a possibility but i would prefer BBS:xxxx since it is a better indicator
of BBS ;)

 PQ> I remember having to include that with Argus many moons ago also.

that was because the ART (Argus/Radius/Taurus) family of mailers didn't
recognize the new ITN flag for telnet so operators had to add the old TELnet
flag for connections... that phased out pretty quickly, though, as the software
was updated to use the newer flags... there was a similar situation with
another flag and that family of mailers... in that case, there was a flag that
was a U[ser] flag that was moved to being a normal flag... those mailers would
not recognize it unless it was to the right of the U flag... i'm not sure if
that was ever updated in those mailers or not but i remember looking at the
code for it in at least one of those mailers...


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