Subj : FidoNews 34:39 [02/08]: General Articles To : All From : FidoNews Robot Date : Mon Sep 25 2017 00:50:15 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= Mobile nodes #2 Ward Dossche 2:292/854 After receiving some valid comments from individual people, it needs to be accepted that the 3 user-flags introduced in my previous article dealing with the same content, were a case of overkill. Therefore the user-flags AFS and HDG are cancelled, while MOB will cover all cases of mobile nodes in the nodelist. It seems developers of Aftershock and Hotdoged are considering, or are already implementing, mobile access for incoming calls which would really be wonderful. The MOB user-flag will now be described as follows ... [,MOB] A mobile node running a binkp-implementation from an undisclosed location Proposed listing of such nodes is: ,,,,,-Unpublished-,300,U,MOB Ward Dossche ZC2 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A returning region, net, sysops and point in Zone-2 Ward Dossche 2:292/854 Naysayers about the mobile user-flags have kicked-up quite a dust storm after the announcement about facilitating mobile nodes in the nodelist. In the rumble of that minor battle however the success story behind that mobile-node affair is completely shrouded. Let me elaborate ... It all started on a Facebook-platform with literally hundreds of former sysops, the majority of them still keen on Fidonet. Several expressed a desire to return and a mobile platform in my opinion was the perfect "quick & dirty" tool to kick-start the process. Within 48 hrs I had several interested people ... 3 of them desiring to be a node (2 of them in Belgium, 1 in Romania), 2 settling for point status (1 in Greece, 1 in Germany). Setting-up the Aftershock application really takes 90 seconds (and my apologies Sergey Poziturin for not testing Hotdoged yet). For people with prior knowledge in echomail, they are literally up and running in minutes. After the first "Hurrah"-feeling the reality sinks in that there's only a single-link possibility, no files, no other goodies and the taste for "more" was quick to enter the minds of some. As a result we now have the returning node of 2:292/8125 Braindeath BBS back up running InternetRex and experimenting with FrontDoor, sysop Tom De Puysselaer. Sysop Petros Argyrakis ex-2:410/9 in Thessaloniki at first was a point here but within 24hrs decided he wanted to be a node. Then he decided to revive Region-41 Greece again. One week later we have a fully fledged Region-41 Greece active again with a Net-410 and 5 node-entries in it for 3 sysops, all systems "up" it seems. For those interested there is also a node in Romania, now residing in Region-56, the region for orphaned nodes: 2:530/305 Andrei Rachita at the moment running a MOB-node and reachable via routed netmail. He also wants to go beyond a MOB-node. Further to that ex-2:292/400 Jozef Schildermans has requested his old number back as well as ex-2:292/865 Luc Sienaert, both soon to be initially listed as MOB. To all of the naysayers, I ask "What have you recently done to further the aim of Fidonet except saying 'Nay'" ? Oh yes, there's also 2:20/4609 with returning-sysop Joaquim Homrighausen. His listing looks a bit odd and raises questions but seems to be technically OK ... except for the nay-sayers ... they object and say "Nay" ... what else ? So .... welcome back Jozef, Luc, Tom, Conrad, Andrei, Petros, Nasos and Christos. Maybe on passing by you could all wave your hands to the members of the "Noble Chivalric Order Of The Knights That Say Nay".. ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- Azure/NewsPrep 3.0 * Origin: Home of the Fidonews (2:2/2.0) .