Hello August!

* 19.01.20 at 18:20, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

When I proceed with a FREQ, oxp will sometimes pop up a warning:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Nodelist says: No requests at this BBS. Try requesting, anyway? |
| |

| >> Yes < No |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

Yes it does and I've always regarded that as a nice feature :)

But, I know that the system DOES allow file requests,

Some SysOps don't always keep their nodelist file request flags up to
date.

Regards,
Martin

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Hello August!

* 20.01.20 at 17:34, August Abolins wrote to mark lewis:

[snip]

BTW.. Sometimes, I find there are discrepancies in what the nodelist says, and what the system on the other end reports. :(

Well, this is Fido we're talking about :-))

Regards,
Martin

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On 01/02/2020 4:14 a.m., Martin Foster : August Abolins wrote:

 AA> +----------------------------------------------------------------
 AA> | Nodelist says: No requests at this BBS. Try requesting, anyway?
 AA> |                                                               
AA> | >> Yes <    No                                                
 AA> +----------------------------------------------------------------

Yes it does and I've always regarded that as a nice feature

It is nice to see a developer/designer to actually utilize the nodelist
flags to produce something meaningful and informative to the user.

Some SysOps don't always keep their nodelist file request flags
up to date.

And, one of the biggest file managing bbses out there doesn't even fly
any of the Xn flags at all. :(

Incidentally, when I freq that system, it drops the point designation in
the acknowledgement and changes the zone number from 2 to 1.

I wonder if you can reproduce it.

It's probably just one of those "yeah.. it's old software" reasons at
the freq server, and one just has to live with it.

I'll send you the particulars in netmail.


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Hello August!

*** 01.02.20 at 17:48, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

[snip]

It is nice to see a developer/designer to actually utilize the nodelist flags to produce something meaningful and informative to the user.

Yes, it's very refreshing :)

Some SysOps don't always keep their nodelist file request flags
up to date.

And, one of the biggest file managing bbses out there doesn't even fly
any of the Xn flags at all. :(

Incidentally, when I freq that system, it drops the point designation in the acknowledgement and changes the zone number from 2 to 1.

I wonder if you can reproduce it.

I actually reproduced it a long time ago but at the time, I just dismissed
it as being a bit "sloppy".

Regards,
Martin

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