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Skriven 2016-01-04 12:57:57 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
  Kommentar till text 30196 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.73)
Ärende: Rules of Echomail
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On 4/01/2016 10:20, mark lewis -> David Drummond wrote:

 DD>> I do not remotely log into my server.

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

A totally automated process - I am not interactively involved in it.
[...]
 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

 ml> and a FTN tosser of some sort...

And a few other OS utilities too - none of which could be classified as a BBS.

 ml> [...]
 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.

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

Then your ears are not working properly. There is no mor terminal session than
there is when two binkP services are talking to each other - or any other
mailer sessions.
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 DD>> No HTTP server running on my fidonet node. It cannot be connected to
 DD>> with a web browser.

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

My node is not running any HTTP service - that certainly excludes connecting to
it with a web browser.
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 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?

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

Pedantic?? Me?? Try looking in the mirror.

Growing up has nothing to do with not running a Bulletin Board Service at my
fidonet node. Earl is simply WRONG.

Try asking in these echos what people expect of a Bulletin Board Service. Very
few would class my node as one.

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regards
David

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