Hello John!

Tuesday October 15 1996 20:18, John Piper wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> Some of us don't bother to fly an HST flag because, according to the
 DD>> Austel Approval Addendum that came with my Courier, the use of B1
 DD>> renders my modem non-approved.

 > As you would very well know, all nodelist flags do is indicate the
 > protocols your modem supports. Quite possibly, forcing an HST connect from
 > overseas may not violate any telecommunications authority regulations.

Supports meaning accepts connections with. David implies that B1 is needed
for the modem to accept an incoming HST connection, but the use of B1 voids
the AUSTEL permit. So to keep in line with AUSTEL regs, David uses B0, and
is no longer elligible to "fly" the HST flag.

When Couriers were unapproved here the nodelist was used by Telstra/AUSTEL to
locate non-approved modems -- search for the HST flag. However, this little
vendetta of AUSTEL's set back exchange technology somewhat -- exchange
software developers were calling in from overseas to HST modems in the
exchanges, as I understand (Dave Hatch has the full story).


Regards,
Hamish

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