Hi everyone!   
      
   Thanks to Ward and JoHo ( hi there! :-) ) I was finally able to enter this   
   eluded place!    
   Been a FD sysop only for a short time until I went multi-line. Still being at   
   school in those old days, happily collecting all old hardware friends' parents   
   threw away, I bought myself a used (!) MainDoor key and enjoyed the 'Pulse ESC   
   dos veces para entrar...' for quite a while (2 to 5 years, I do'nt remember).   
   But I swapped that with McMail when it became clear that it would probably   
   cease to work properly in the year 19100 and not get fixed. So, what am I   
   doing here!? Secretly, I kept FrontDoor as my favourite terminal program. It   
   was incredibly fast on slow machines, kept screen line #25 free for payload   
   and had a mostly error-free interpretation of AVATAR codes. Ward now brought   
   me back into Fido, and I'm (slowly.. very slowly) going towards using a   
   classical POTS EMSI mailer via Telnet. Specifically, in a DOSBox.    
   JoHo seems to work on the same thing, but I'm not so sure whether or not this   
   means FD is in development again.    
   I'd like to stay in touch to try out mutual connectivity of different mailers   
   in different environments over Telnet, preferring to start out with McMail   
   for  myself, but of course also to see whether a classical DOS FD in an   
   emulation can still be used - or adaptions would need to be made in either FD   
   or the emulator.    
      
   So, let's see what is possible.    
   Using FD term in DOSBox gets me disconnected on most Telnet BBSs because they   
   'detect a port scanner', which I'm certainly not using. In a BBS that doesn't   
   use such a detection, I can move around as I used to, but there's no way to   
   get anything via ZModem. The ZModem transfer screen pops up, but it's unable   
   to transfer a single block. There was no other protocol choice, so I don't yet   
   know whether this is only ZModem specific. Has anyone more experience? Anyone   
   know a bunch of good Telnet BBSs that are not so picky? Anyone know a setting   
   in DOSBox/DOS (env. variable??)  that might hold off ZModem from working?    
      
   Cheers! :-)   
      
    ius   
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