Subj : proposed new nodelist                                    [2]
To   : Jasen Betts
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jul 24 2002 07:01 pm

 JB>>> what's a node  if the same system is in the nodelist three
 JB>>> times with three different phone numbers (maybe with different
 JB>>> brands of modem) but all attached to the same messagebase is it
 JB>>> one node or three?

 ml>> a messagebase does NOT a node make...

 JB> true, do you intend to answer the question?  I'll rephrase it
 JB> in more general language, if three SLF nodelist lines are
 JB> functionally equivalent as far as the handling of mail, FREQs
 JB> etc sent to them but inly differ in their conection mechanisms
 JB> (mailer type, transport mendiam, etc)  are they three nodes ot
 JB> is it one?

i would have to say yes, whether it is one machine or more than one that is 
actually processing the data behind the connection type... i'm thinking of a 
network where one machine is doing POTS and another doing IP and they both drop 

their inbounds into a central directory and maybe a third machine processes it 
all...

)\/(ark

 
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