Subj : Re: FidoNews submission
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Dan Clough
Date : Thu May 29 2025 08:49:41

-=> Ward Dossche wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 DC> Trying to submit a FidoNews article (just a "Food for Thought"), but am
 DC> unable to establish a binkp connection (netmail) to either 2:2/2 or
 DC> 2:203/0.

 WD> It doesn't work if you don't want it to work. It works just fine here.

Not even sure what that means.  I want it to work, but it doesn't.  Now, 
*eventually* (hours later), it did work.  That's not how things are 
supposed to work.  I'm assuming that you, as a ZC, knows what "CM" (and 
IBN/INA) mean in a nodelist entry.

 WD> IPv4/IPv6 is not an excuse, there are other ways to submit an article
 WD> if it's an obstacle.

Sure, I know that, and wasn't trying to make an "excuse".  But you, as 
an old-school Fido guy, should appreciate that the "proper" way to 
communicate in FidoNet is via netmail.  Not email.  Email is outside of 
FidoNet, and in fact could be considered to be a "competitor" to 
netmail/FidoNet.  I'm sure you remember (as I do) the days when you had 
to demonstrate competence with Netmail just to get a node number.  It 
just seems strange to me that an RC/NC/Node/SnoozeEditor's system can't 
be reliably connected to via normal FidoNet methods.

Doesn't that also seem strange to you?



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