Subj : Re: 2025 FTSC election
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Feb 22 2025 15:23:28

  Re: Re: 2025 FTSC election
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to Rob Swindell on Fri Feb 21 2025 11:56 am

 > Hi Rob,
 >
 > On 2025-02-20 16:15:00, you wrote to me:
 >
 >  >> Have you heard about something called the nodelist? ;-)
 >
 >  RS> Yeah, of course, though I haven't used one in over 20 years.
 >
 > At all?

Right (and in truth, it's been more than 20 years).

 > Isn't synchronet/binkit able to use a nodelist?

BinkIt does have that feature/option (to read hostnames and port numbers from a nodelist), but I don't use that feature (and I'm not the primary author of BinkIt).

 >  >> # grep 'Region,' NODELIST.045
 >  >>
 >  >> And use the output of that...
 >
 >  RS> That produces 31 lines without complete addresses, e.g.
 >
 > It's all you need to know.
 >
 >  RS> Region,92,Panama,Pedasi_Panama,John_Dovey,-Unpublished-,300,CM,IBN:gato
 >  RS> fue go.s
 >  RS> y nchronetbbs.org,PING
 >
 > You are using an old nodelist! Region,92 was removed from the nodelist on:
 > 27 Nov 2024

Confirmed, that was an old nodelist, the latest I have now reports:

$ grep -c Region, NODELIST.052
30

 > Actually there are 30.
 >
 >  RS> Is each supposedly reachable via netmail at <zone>:<region>/1?
 >
 > No, it is: <zone>:<region>/0
 >
 > That should work unless their system is misconfigured. In which case it's
 > questionable if they should be a RC. ;-)

Thank you, I'll sending netmails post haste.
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