SP> I know that some of the sysops would like to receive incoming
 SP> connections on the phone so that hotdoged can action as a node. 

as a sysop of a bbs i would say no. a scheduled call to the bbs for the
lasted fidomails is a must-have-feature today. if hotdoged checks all XX
minutes for new messages is this what i need as a point and as a sysop of a
bbs-system.

 SP> 
 SP> It's not a big deal to implement this with some restrictions: no points
 SP> and downlinks, only one uplink. 

if it is no big-deal i would say: make your feature list bigger and disable
it by default.

 SP> 
 SP> Does anyone really needs this? I've heard this feature will be in the
 SP> next version of AfterShock, yet it is a secret and I didn't tell you
 SP> anything :)
 SP> 
it is an open source secret :D but things thats rudi wrotes in a answer-mail
of this mail from you sergey are right. some people out there running whole
bbs-systems on a rasberry pi. and if your hotdoged can handel in future more
than one uplink some people can plug in there old android tablets to
powerline and let it run 24/7 for much lesser powerconsum than a PC or
anything else. And if i imagine to the next step my mind was comming up to
things like: HDSPA/GPRS/LTE Android FidoNetNodes... they are reachable if
fixnet-telephone/internet lines goes down and powersupply is down as well.

and as a sysop of a bbs system i must say: yes this option to keep alive my
fidonode if my bbs is down (power/internet) i want it! :)

but dont leave the focus to make hotdoged with ftn to an easy app for the
fido access ;)

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