Subj : Number of BBSes?
To   : Rick Van Ruth
From : Frank Vest
Date : Sat Jan 04 2003 10:31 pm

On (05 Jan 03) Rick Van Ruth wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello Rick,

 RV>  RV>> Perhaps something is needed to denote BBS's in the nodelist, MO
 RV>  RV>> does not really seem to be doing the job. Yeah, I also have
 RV> always  RV>> run a BBS, without it I wouldn't bother being in any ftn.

 FV> <grin> As is so commonly argued.... The Fidonet Nodelist is a list of
 FV> connection information, not a BBS list. <<wink>>

 RV> Then maybe its time to change that.

I keep trying to change that. Trouble is, most seem to want to build
the Nodelist up to "save" Fidonet and forget about the BBS.

 RV> You have to remember way back that
 RV> having a BBS was taken for granted for most any node.

I remember it very well. In fact, that was the reason for the
discussion with David D. I stated what you stated above and was told
to keep my politics out of it. ;-)

 FV> Let's not go into this too deep. I don't want another thread like in
 FV> FTSC_PUBLIC with David. :)  Not accusing you of doing such a thing.

 RV> Ahh but this is more towards future development and directions,
 RV> FTSC_PUBLIC should really only have discussion about current
 RV> standards, and currently submitted proposals. Not future development,
 RV> the FTSC isn't responsible for development :-)

Ok.

There is a thread in FTSC_PUBLIC about a type of "finger server" for
Fidonet that would allow IP mailers to determine the protocols
available from a remote system and then start the proper IP mailer or
program to use in order to transfer Fidonet mail. This would have the
ultimate affect of only requiring one IP flag and an IP address or
domain in the Nodelist instead of several protocol flags.

Basically, there would be no need for the IBN, IFT and so forth flags
since the "finger server" would provide that information and use it to
trigger the needed software.

Is that future development? :-)

I don't mind it being discussed here if that is better than
FTSC_PUBLIC.


Frank

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