Subj : 1:10/345
To   : Lesley-Dee Dylan
From : Michael Grant
Date : Wed Dec 05 2001 11:23 am

Hello Lesley-Dee.

05 Dec 01 11:00, you wrote to me:

 MG>> I know enough to know that the Filegate is a completely
 MG>> separate entity from Fidonet. I know enough to know

 LD> Except that caught up in the rest of the file distribution games,
 LD> there was the nodediff.  Janis's problems led to the nodelist being
 LD> held up for much of Fido for up to three days, before it managed to
 LD> get through the bottleneck.  Janis IS responsible for the timely
 LD> distribution of the nodelist, as part of her Fido duties.

The Nodediff, the Nodelist, the Fidonews, and the Policy documents are in no 
way the responsibility of the Filegate to distribute. They are the sole 
responsibility of the *C's to distribute, and always have been. The fact that 
the Filegate moves them is a /convenience/ provided to the *C's and any others 
who wish to recieve those files from the Filegate. The Filegate is not bound in 
any way to distribute those files, and can in fact stop distributing them at 
any time. If any *C is concerned about the Filegate having problems, they can 
contact the Z1C directly to get a copy of the nodediff. Failing that, they can 
contact the IC; he should have a copy, since the Z1C must submit one to him. 
Same goes for any other ZC, since each zone submits it's seg to the other 
zones.

But then again, in a volunteer network, is it really necessary to jump on 
someone over a three day delay, when that person's computer clearly has 
crashed? Everyone suffers a system crash from time to time, hardware can fail, 
software can hiccup, attacks from viruses and worms can occur, and it takes 
some time to recover. One should not expect perfection 100% of the time, to do 
so is unreasonable, but then I never did expect reason out of you and your 
cronies...


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