Re: Re: Nodelist Flags
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to Paul Hayton on Sat May 30 2020 11:40:05


 PH> I'm looking for ways to show a non standard telnet port or a ssh port
 PH> or... and yes it's for BBS connections.. a U flag could do this I
 PH> guess.. it's open for use in the FTSC specs..

 WvV> But that doesn't mean you can put whatever you like in there.

sure it does... to a point... fidonet, however, has been having their eyes
covered, though, by some who insist that all nodelist flags, U or not, are
so-called approved or they will strip them... one day, folks will wake up and
smell the roses and this so-called "approved U flags" nonsense will go out the
window in the same way that folks found/figured out they could connect anywhere
for their mail and didn't have to connect to some NC/NEC's or HUB's system for
anything other than possibly routed netmail...

 WvV> It should serve a purpose to the function of the nodelist. BBS
 WvV> connectivity for users doesn't qualify.

yeah... so listing (IC issued?) fakenets for BBSes with points didn't qualify?
there were also serial numbers of some sort listed in old nodelists... i know
there were other things listed in the U flags, too... hell, i used to list
U,UUCP because my system didn't meet the qualifications for listing as an
official fidonet to internet gateway so i could not list the UUCP flag on the
left of any U flags... listing it as a U flag was quite ok and worked as
desired...


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