Subj : Candidates vision request
To : Markus Reschke
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Sun Dec 09 2018 03:29 pm
Re: Candidates vision request
By: Markus Reschke to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Dec 09 2018 08:13 pm
CS>> Yup, old school to use the BBS name field. One of the earlierst
CS>> methods and even allows a static IP.
MR> I haven't checked the current nodelist, but we also have?/had IP addresses
MR> encoded as telephone number.
Yes. It was an early version as well to place one there al=s an alertnative
for ION's. Very messy.
Then we had 0000-0-0-0-0 as an unvaried string in the phone field. That was
also in the FAQ series, now gone. Latwr adopted by Z6 and Z1 until use of
Makenl features made it redundant.
