[Possible Spam]Re: [aprssig] More thoughts on (was) Connected Packet

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From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu>
To: <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>; <spider at rivcom.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:34 AM
Subject: [Possible Spam]Re: [aprssig] More thoughts on (was) Connected 
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> Can you talk to a winlink telpac node with no special
> software?  If so, then that is ideal.  If not, then that is a
> significant problem for a come-as-you-are system...
>

Yes....a dumb terminal will work just fine...vt100, etc.
Think of Winlink this way.....

All a TelPac node is....is a remote port to a BBS.  The neat thing is that 
this BBS has SMTP email capability.
And the telnet connection is now backed up to three different BBs's.
It really is that simple.

Jim