Text 30196, 74 rader
Skriven 2016-01-03 19:20:54 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.73)
  Kommentar till text 30178 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
Ärende: Rules of Echomail
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04 Jan 16 09:00, you wrote to Earl Croasmun:

 >>> No files can be transacted through my mailer.

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

 DD> I do not remotely log into my server.

so what do you call it when you connect to it with your t-bird?????

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

 DD> There is no bulletin board running there.

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

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

and a FTN tosser of some sort...

[...]

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

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

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

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

sure sounds like a user connection to me... the terminal, such as it is, is
hidden while your t-bird exchanges mail with your jamnntpd server...

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

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

it doesn't exclude web browsers and neither does it exclude news readers which
you do use one of...

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

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

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

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

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

your problem is one of semantics and pedanticism... grow up for once in your
life, eh??

)\/(ark

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killed all the bad guys, and when it's all perfect, and just and fair, and when
you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do
with the people like you? The trouble makers. How are you going to protect your
glorious revolution from the next one?" - The twelfth Doctor

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