JK>>>> You have to have a *real* mailer I guess - i.e. not one that JK>>>> limits you to one type of connection... [...] NB> SBBS accepts incoming connections on port 23, as does any other BBS NB> software unless you tell it to do otherwise. FTN transfer over NB> "telnet" should have (and maybe is?) always been defaulted to a NB> different port. I believe BBBS does this on a high port (maybe even NB> higher than the 24554 binkp port?).
NB> Either way, I'm sure that was known when the FTN over telnet protocol NB> was created.
cat /etc/services|grep fido
binkp 24554/tcp # binkp fidonet protocol tfido 60177/tcp # fidonet EMSI over telnet fido 60179/tcp # fidonet EMSI over TCP
