Subj : Routing = mess
To   : FRANK VEST
From : FOXY FERGUSON
Date : Tue Nov 27 2001 11:17 pm

FV> This may be a stupid question, but... If no mail is flowing,
FV> what's the point?

Most of the nodes in Net 361 and Net 135 don't participate in
echomail, or run a public BBS: They must have other reasons for
having a node number in Fidonet. As long as they meet a minimal
criteria and I can contact them in emergencies, I, for one, ain't
gonna nuke 'em. Even if it means (as has been/is the case) that
I've had to create a private nodelist containing their old node
number from before they got "rolled into" Net361 so that their
routed netmail (if any) can get to them.

FV> 393/9005 is effectively an end node.

I know. The sysop of that node has been very ...ah...
religious about notifying me of any/all changes that affect
the ROUTELST.

FV> I think that 3830/9 connects to, or is 19/0 or something
FV> like that?

One of Quarrella's aka's, yes.

FV> A convoluted, contrived and pulsating mass of something...
FV> but it has a hell of a heart beat. :-))

No one in this entire world wide Fidonet network is REQUIRED to
have a /simple/ setup if they desire otherwise.

With something close to 15 machines and 5 or 6 different, sometimes
inconpatible, and therefore /quite/ distinctive operating systems,
my site is anything but simple. And my husband's threatened to add
a new operating system to the mix. Just as soon as he can get
around to writing it. Construction of a guest bed-sit has to come
first, and we're almost at the point of stuffin' in the insulation.
A job I don't at all like! :(
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