Subj : File, file; who's got the file
To   : Ross Cassell
From : Jack Yates
Date : Sun Aug 26 2001 05:58 am

 RC> Dale only has hatch prvileges in the BACKBONE FDN and the DDS FDN's, I
 RC> doubt Ruth would be very tolerant of a route list being hatched in
 RC> them. <<G>> I do suppose the Z1B could vote to hatch the route list in
 RC> DDSDOORS, entertainment is entertainment?

IMO Dale would be the guest of honor at a world famous Ruth Argust California
Barbecue..<G>

 RC> The whole crux of the argument is that if they send that route chart
 RC> in its own FDN, the end/leaf nodes have the option to opt out of that
 RC> route chart, like they can the other route chart oriented FDN's
 RC> including the Russian one (Hi Carl). While still getting the other
 RC> Fidonet Information files that do interest them.

S'wot I keep tellin' them.  I started in this thread with the best of
intentions, trying to present a POV that could be reasoned with; Dale want's to
make it personal, which solves nothing.

 RC> If they opt for their own FDN, I hope no one deletes that file so
 RC> that
 RC> no one else below them can get it, because at that point a FIX message
 RC> is all it takes to prevent the receipt of that file.

I wouldn't delete it, and I would not recommend that anyone else do so.  I'm
not deleting it now, and my downlinks should know where it's to be found by
now.

 RC> I have had already 2 links that have opted out of the BACKBONE FDN,
 RC> they stated that since I give them a virtual directory in their FTP
 RC> accounts to FTP to what the anonymous FTP'ers can see, they will grab
 RC> the BACKBONE files as needed on a manual basis.

That woudl be an in dividual choice.  I need to work on my FREQ control files;
they're hopelessly out of date.  I guess I'll put that on the project list, to
be done between interruptions.



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