On 2018 Jul 09 14:13:40, you wrote to Richard Menedetter:

 ON> * My interpretation:
 ON> INA - is reserved to be the address of the destination machine w/o PORT

INA was created because there was someone who was trying to push a lot of
buttons and piss a lot of people off... at that time, there was a 157 (IIRC)
limit on the length of a nodelist line so this individual was putting their
domain on all of the flags that applied to their node... the same domain...
INA was created as a generic one place flag to list the domain if it was the
same for all the flags...

 ON> INB - says BinkP

IBN... yes, that's binkp protocol...

 ON> ITN - says Telnet (does that mean Wazoo/YooHoo over TCP?)

yes, it means all the standard FTN protocols used on a POTS line are available
on telnet... FTS-0001 and up through EMSI...

 ON> If I understood the above, then the INA should have had the address,
 ON> w/o a INB and does have ITN as a flag, as port 23 is assumed.

i'm not sure which nodelist line you are referencing now but yes, if there's
no port, the default port is assumed...

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