On Monday, October 28 1996, David Drummond wrote to John Piper ...

 JP> Why not fly the flag to indicate that you support V.42?

 DD> I'm doing my part to keep the nodelist size down.

Bollocks, David. I am sure that 4 bytes won't make much of a difference to
a file which currently stands at 2996795 bytes!

 DD> I consider it a redundant flag when V.34 is flown.

Trying to wipe out, obliterate and eliminate redundancy, are you? |-)

 DD> It may be possible to do one without the other but hardly likely.

Since V.3anything does not imply V.42, you may as well include the flag.

Nodelist flags indicate what protocols you support. It is not necessary to
omit a flag (especially V.42) just because most of V.34 connects will also
connect using V.42 error correction.

Anyway, now the only relevance this thread has to modems is that V.34 does
not imply V.42. See you in ZONE3_SYSOP if you wish to continue.

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

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