On Wednesday, October 30 1996, David Drummond wrote to John Piper ...

 DD> B1 _is_ neccesary to force an HST outgoing call, and by flying an HST
 DD> flag I would be encouraging innocent young Australians to break the law.

 JP> Oh bollocks, David. You're really clutching at straws this time. |-)

 DD> Why fly flags in the nodelist if it is not to invite calls at that
 DD> protocol/etc?

It doesn't "invite" anything; it merely indicates what protocols
your modem is capable of supporting. Besides which, it's not necessarily
illegal for callers overseas to force their modems to use HST. We've
already established that.

 JP> I suppose that you'd better not park your BMW in a shopping mall carpark,
 JP> just in case it encourages some hooligan to swipe the badge, or worse --
 JP> the car!

 DD> Parking a vehicle somewhere does NOT mean "swipe bits/the
vehicle" to
 DD> right minded people...

And by the same token, flying the H16 nodelist flag is not an open
invitation for people in Australia to violate Austel regulations and force
HST with B1.

Having H16 present in my nodelist entry certainly hasn't encouraged anyone
to force HST, except for one instance when Paul Sanders, decided to connect
to my Courier using HST, as a result of our recent discussion here.

 JP> To save you stating that you don't have a BMW, I know. :-)

 DD> Actually I do.

I only realised a day or so after posting my message. I do remember you
making mention of the fact in one of the sysop echoes that you have a
Beamer. I should have used a Merc as an example.

 DD> And it has never had the badges pulled off it.

You're lucky. :-)

 DD> Neither has the wife's - and we do park them on occasion in shopping
 DD> mall car parks.

Your hooligans are tamer than ours .

John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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