Subj : RVIA Crap
To   : Carol Shenkenberger
From : Carl Austin Bennett
Date : Mon May 14 2001 05:15 am

 DR>> We will be adding a new RVIA flag in our Net this week.

 CS> Net270 is comming back to life with a new NC and they are using them 
 CS> too.  Should see a few more soon. They havent established a common 
 CS> link between them yet so using RVIA data to track those we know about.

That sounds a lot like a couple of our +1-519- nets; it's almost quicker to 
list who *doesn't* have independent feed than to list all of the RVIA tags.

Much, but not all, of this is due to the growing number of IP nodes.

When everyone was POTS, an independent feed was costly and it was relatively 
easy to find one system to serve as a central drop-off point for the entire 
net.

That seems to be changing now.

Wander into the home net of the TransX fido-via-internet software, for 
instance, and there's a pretty good chance of finding almost as many 
independent feeds as live nodes.

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