Subj : proposed new nodelist                                    [2]
To   : mark lewis
From : Neil Walker
Date : Thu Jul 18 2002 04:12 am

Hello mark!

Wednesday July 17 2002 17:21, you wrote to me:

NW>> Considering the nodelist can only contain speeds up to 9600

ml> where do you get that "can only contain" from??

Dunno. ;-) Clearly, I was mistaken.

Looking through the current nodelist suggests that the maority of nodes have
made the same mistake as I did. Try counting the number of entries with "9600"
but also with flags indicating higher capabilities. I wonder how this came
about?

NW>> the other modem flags are far more useful for that.

ml> that's all fine and good... however, if i never want to directly
ml> contact a system that can only do 9600, then i can block that or
ml> whatever...

Not very reliable considering the above. ;-)

NW>> I also need to seperate calls according to the receivers
NW>> capability (ISDN, V34, V32, etc.) and I do it with those
NW>> flags.

ml> show me which of those flags is the one that indicates 9600?

V32.

ml> my POINT in this was to prove to you that the SPEED field ~is~ useful
ml> and not there just for human convienience...

It's not very useful if most nodes have it wrong. :-(


Be lucky,

Neil

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