Subj : Clearing Houz Update BBS details
To : deon
From : Mindsurfer
Date : Fri Aug 08 2025 04:46 pm
Re: Clearing Houz Update BBS details
By: deon to Mindsurfer on Fri Aug 08 2025 23:30:09
de> I dont recall if I have included the phone number in the nodelist segment
de> updates each week (and I'm not near my system to check) - is it included?
yes, it did include the phone number automaticaly.
de> I do know that I havent enabled any way of including modem flags (since
de> most folks dont use modems anymore, I didnt bother with that part of the
de> nodelist segment routines in clrghouz).
de> Im not sure that this would work(?) - I'm not aware of any mailer that
de> speaks binkp down an (unreliable) serial connection. (I use "unreliable"
de> as line noise was always a problem with modems - and could be interpretted
de> by 1 side as gibberish line data - but the modem transfer protocols had
de> CRC's that detected that and triggered resends).
de> That said, clrghouz does support EMSI/Zmodem - so if your modem answered
de> to a zmodem mailer, then you could get mail that way (but that is also
de> problematic, zmodem doesnt work well when 1 direction of comms is at a
de> different speed to the other - which is often the problem with zmodem
de> implmentations over TCP).
ok, as i understand you, a modem phone number within a nodelist makes sense only if you use some old mailers like frontdoor, mcmail etc pp?
so, since there is a binkp style mailer over here, i will remove the phone number via clearing houz web-interface again.
i thought using the sexpots driver would make connections possible to the bbs and the mailer, but i guess binkp is not made for that.
