Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Re: Talisman / WWIVnet
From:    apam (11:1/218)@8304.WWIVnet-FTN
Date:    Fri Apr 09, 2021 15:28

To.......... Rushfan #1@513.Wwivnet

 > But since we present a 5d address, binkd must sort this out somehow.
 > If not  that's strange, but really there's wwivnet and that is kinda
 > it, and a few  folks in rushnet. There's not the network proliferation
 > anymore.

Yeah, you would think so. Maybe there is a way, I don't know.

 > If this really becomes a problem (man, that'd be awesome if there were
 > a  crap-load of wwiv networks), then we'll work on making the zone
 > configurable  by the network admin and set up a registry to get
 > numbers (aka a text file in  github that folks can send PRs to).

Hehe. You could just have the net configurable by wwivnets, and have the
entire zone reserved for wwivnet style nets. then it would be like :

20000:1/101@wwivnet

20000 would indicate a wwivnet, 1 would indicate it's actually wwivnet
and not rushnet, 101 is the node of the system, and @wwivnet for the 5D
stuff.

But yeah, as you said it's really a non-issue. I don't see people
starting up new wwiv-style nets over FTN nets because of the limited
support across systems. It would be cool to have other wwivnets though,
but I think having the ability to easily host a sub also would satisfy
some that would otherwise spin up a net..

I'd love to invent a new style net, I tried with maginet, but it turned
out kindof like a simpler wwivnet (which i got inspiration from). Also
tried a keybase hosted net (messages were just stored in a central
keybase folder and synced to bbses) but you have to get other bbses to
support it or it gets kind of lonely :P (at least in my case - there's
plenty of people in wwivnet)

Anyway, I'm rambling

Andrew

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