Text 30178, 63 rader
Skriven 2016-01-04 09:00:00 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
  Kommentar till text 30174 av Earl Croasmun (1:261/38.0)
Ärende: Rules of Echomail
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On 4/01/2016 08:13, Earl Croasmun -> David Drummond wrote:

 >> No files can be transacted through my mailer.

 EC> Irrelevant, given the "or." But when you remotely log in to your server,

I do not remotely log into my server.

 EC> it would be extraordinarily easy to transfer files to or from the bulletin
board,

There is no bulletin board running there.

 EC> including but not limited to mail-related files. If you choose not to do
so, that's your choice.

Those services are not offered by my node - even if I choose to attempt to
utilise them. It runs a fidonet mailer and an nntp server

 >>> "A bulletin board system, or BBS, is a computer server running custom
 >>> software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal
 >>> program."

 >>> What is your point?

 >> There is no "custom software that allows users to connect with a
 >> terminal...."

 EC> Really? You DON'T connect to the server?

That is correct - my nntp client connects with the nntp server - no human
interactivity with the server involved.

 EC> Or you don't think you do it through software?

I am aware that software is involved. I run a news client here at home, a news
server is running at the fidonet node. No BBS package.

 EC> Did you read the part of YOUR definition that included connecting to the
server via web browsers

No HTTP server running on my fidonet node. It cannot be connected to with a web
browser.

 EC> and "all of the protocols commonly used on the Internet?"

The only "common internet protocol" observed by my Fidonet node is Network News
Transfer Protocol.

 EC> In the term "NNTP," do you know what the T and the P stand for?

"Transfer Protocol" - I don't think that alone constitutes a BBS.

If you are so convinced that my fidonet node IS a BBS - what BBS package do you
think I might be running to provide the BBS services?

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regards
David

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