Subj : New Format  vs  DNS
To   : Peter Knapper
From : Johannes Lundberg
Date : Sun Jul 21 2002 07:10 pm

 pk> I can certainly see the perspective for keeping a Fidonet nodelist,
 pk> however I still think we need to be EXTREMELY careful about attempting to
 pk> modify the current nodelist. Like it or not, we are likely to have POTS
 pk> only nodes around for a while, so we CANNOT break any existing S/W they
 pk> may be using. We MUST in all cases remain completely compatible with
 pk> current practise.

I totally agree with you here. Whatever solutions we may come up with, current 
nodes should be able to keep running without problems.

[answers to the other comments later on]

 pk> My IP node works by using all the little bits I have put together myself
 pk> (mainly OS/2 Rexx coding as a wrapper to executables), the only thing
 pk> missing is a "common" IP Nodelist type format, and all that needs is an
 pk> agreement between all of Fidonet over how its going to handle this part
 pk> of the problem.

I used to run OS/2 myself. Switched to Debian/GNU Linux for, well, quite some 
years now. Having bort regular modem-access (BBS/Fido), and BinkP.

 
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