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echo: aust_modem
to: John Piper
from: David Drummond
date: 1996-10-17 05:57:14
subject: What`s `HST` mean?

John, at 20:18 on Oct 15 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

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

JP> Which has diddly squat to do with your nodelist flags.

Hmm - Interesting point.

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

I suppose so.  I guess if I don't fly a particular flag, and it doesn't
work when someone tries it, I'm not obligated (in fact if you check, I fly
very few nodelist flags - what someone else assumes is up to them).

David
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