Subj : [--- No BBS ---]
To   : Steven Horn
From : Winston Smith
Date : Mon Mar 24 2003 04:33 am

-> But it's NOT a Telnet address, it is an IP (Internet Protocol)
-> address.  In my case, it is the address where others using BinkP
-> systems can reach me but it could also serve as a Web server or for
-> e-mail.

    Hmm...  for a Web server it might be possible to use something like
    http://host.network.domain  (?)  Anybody with Internet
connectivity will know what an 'http://' URL means....  Any browser
would reject an attempted telnet....  And if the user doesn't have
Internet connectivity?  well...  then he or she can't telnet to the
address anyway, so it doesn't matter! (?)  Any user then trying to
telnet to the address knows that he or she is merely guessing that there
is a telnet service port as well, because usually, if all services are
supported, the poster lists the address without a single particular URL
prefix.... (?)

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