PQ>> The most advanced piece of FTN software, Radius, used to use it.
BF> I've been working a lot with the Radius source code, and I can BF> assure you that it does NOT use the INA flag for any useful BF> information.
Keep looking. I sent _many_ off-the-cuff 'direct' netmails to people I'd never done so in the past, which succeeded when the only address flag was an INA entry. Imagine my (genuine!) surprise. I tell you this from first-hand experience; not hearsay.
BF> It tries to resort to that flag if every other internet flag is BF> failing (usually failing that too), but then I don't think you can BF> call it actually using it?
A fall-through? And, this is a bad thing? Really? 8-)
BF> Maybe I should ask how many nodes have just the INA flag and no BF> other IP related flag?
I am not that sort of Linux whiz. Wrong guy.
Cheers, Paul.
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