On 2018 Apr 04 17:11:44, you wrote to All:   
      
    JD> Appreciate any comments or direction, and sorry if this is well-trod   
    JD> ground in this echo.   
      
   actually, it hasn't really been trod on enough anywhere... it is also much   
   simplier than you're thinking...   
      
   older systems that still want to talk to analogue modems simply use a shim to   
   convert to telnet and a virtual modem...   
      
   in the windows world, the best and pretty inexpensive package is Mike Ehlert's   
   netserial and netfoss packages... netfoss handles the FOSSIL type stuff... i   
   don't recall if netserial is also needed or if they work independently... they   
   can be found on many BBSes as well as Mike's PCMicro site...   
      
   in the OS/2 world, the best is still the SIO package from x00 guru Ray Gwinn...   
      
   in the linux world, most of the mailers and BBSes talk directly to the   
   whatever port they are configured on... there's no virtual modem or shim   
   needed... if you're running DOS doors on your native linux BBS, use DOSEMU and   
   set all doors to talk to COM1... there's a setting in DOSEMU, command line i   
   think, that handles the tying together of the fake comm port and the telnet,   
   ssh, or rlogin ports... native synchronet and mystic both operate this way...   
   synchronet, i know, offers telnet, ssh, rlogin, http, https, ftp and ftps   
   access to it...   
      
   in today's world, the mailers operate, mostly, on their own port (24554   
   default for binkp) and so there's no real need for the old style front end   
   mailer sharing the same port as the BBS... it can still be done, though... i   
   do it here with my frontdoor/remoteaccess setup running on OS/2... there are   
   not very many systems out there doing this so there's not much mail being   
   transferred over telnet mailer connections... the majority of today's systems   
   are using binkd or have a mailer that offers the binkp protocol...   
      
   i don't know if that answers your question(s) or not... hopefully it does help   
   some...   
      
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