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.

  xxcarol
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