Subj : fidonet.org
To   : Frank Linhares
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Tue Aug 13 2019 02:21:03

Hello Frank!

12 Aug 19 09:41, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

 FL> Is there not already an official fidonet nodelist that is compromised
 FL> of all 4 zones published every Friday?

Each Zone Coordinator publishes their own version of the nodelist, using their 
own segment plus the segments they have received from their fellow ZCs.  It's 
been done that way ever since the International Coordinator position became 
vacant.

The confusion that can occur is due to all ZCs using the same filenames 
(NODELIST and NODEDIFF) for their versions of the nodelist.  You cannot apply 
a Z2-created NODEDIFF to the Z1-created NODELIST, as it will result in an 
invalid nodelist.

The ZCs have attempted to combat this with the daily nodelists by naming the 
files and archives with the zone number; eg. Z1DAILY for Zone 1.

 FL> Although anti-spam technology is way better than it was even 5 years
 FL> ago, fighting spam is a never ending game. There are many options, at
 FL> least for gated netmail that I currently use to eliminate pretty much
 FL> all of it like converting any base64, mime and html email to text and
 FL> parsing it for valid content. Denying anything with an attachment as
 FL> it wouldn't be gated anyway. Using RBLs and greylisting.

Good luck on that project!

Andrew

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