Text 1746, 39 rader
Skriven 2008-03-28 12:17:50 av Carol Shenkenberger (686.ftsc_pub)
   Kommentar till text 1718 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Proper nodelist format for Internet-only nodes?
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 >  MvdV> And it that capacity I take the position that using the MO flag
 >  MvdV> for a system that runs a private BBS, does not conform to
 >  MvdV> documented FTSC standards.
 > 
 > it absolutely does! where does it say that a system with a BBS /must/ indica
 > such by not flying the MO flag? where does it say that a private bbs cannot
 > reside behind an open mailer? TTBOMK, these statements are written no where.

I'll skip the rest but here, you have one of the many differences in
interpretation between zones.  I do not recall 'MO' as being very much used
in Z2 or for that matter, any zone but Z1 and for a time, Z6 (Singapore had a
few and I believe Thailand).

Now in Z1, it was fairly thin but most nets of any size had a few.  Net275
had 'Leeanne' (I think that was her name).  An open lesbian who ran a site
with an open mailer for netmail (hence PVT wasnt appropriate), was CM, yet
kept her BBS as 'private' to just a few friends.  Following the tactics of
the time, the then NC275 (predated me but I was here then) used MO.

If any can remember, I think the NET202 mailer machine was also so marked? 
Also I think that mailer carried 'SO' (a depreciated flag, may not have ever
been correctly documented, a derivation of LO and meant 'secure only' or
rather, have to have a session secure password to connect).


As the system of Fidonet grew in the late 80's and early 90's there was quite
a bit of difference in how things developed or how some of the documented
flags were applied.  Sometimes the documentation of the FTSC matches one
zone, but not another (presumably largely written by a member of the zone it
fit).

It was somewhere between 10 and 12 years ago when I first was a guest member
of the FTSC (nodelist working group only) and I used to watch (and add
comments) as folks tried to line up the various zonal uses of flags.  MO was
always a problem spot.
             xxcarol
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