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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    oxp: how does it distinguish FREQ system    |
|    01 Feb 20 17:48:53    |
      MSGID: 2:221/360.0 5e359de2       REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet e10279aa       PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20191227       TID: GE/2 1.2       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0200       On 01/02/2020 4:14 a.m., Martin Foster : August Abolins wrote:                AA> +----------------------------------------------------------------         AA> | Nodelist says: No requests at this BBS. Try requesting, anyway?         AA> |                                                                              AA> | >> Yes <   No                          Â                                     AA> +----------------------------------------------------------------                      MF> Yes it does and I've always regarded that as a nice feature              It is nice to see a developer/designer to actually utilize the nodelist       flags to produce something meaningful and informative to the user.                      MF> Some SysOps don't always keep their nodelist file request flags        MF> up to date.              And, one of the biggest file managing bbses out there doesn't even fly       any of the Xn flags at all. :(              Incidentally, when I freq that system, it drops the point designation in       the acknowledgement and changes the zone number from 2 to 1.              I wonder if you can reproduce it.              It's probably just one of those "yeah.. it's old software" reasons at       the freq server, and one just has to live with it.              I'll send you the particulars in netmail.                     --        Quoted with Reformator/Quoter. Info = https://tinyurl.com/sxnhuxc              --- TB68/Win7 (just keeping things short!)        * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 19/10 90/1 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 227/114 229/426       SEEN-BY: 229/1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 288/100 292/854       SEEN-BY: 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1       SEEN-BY: 2452/250       PATH: 221/360 1 280/464 229/426           |
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