Unfiltered slots are considered trash and will be sent to the network via the hidden active provider.
Catch is, there must be at least one filtered slot for the behaviour to trigger.... now I'm trying to recall why that catch was needed :) I think because LuaInventory has is_filtered which was an easy way to avoid iterating over an entire trunk for no reason (because UPS).
Currently equipment can go in any grid but only cars are checked by the mod.