Subj : finaly for me
To   : mark lewis
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Sat Mar 17 2018 02:00:00

Good ${greeting_time}, mark!

16 Mar 2018 12:05:32, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

 TK>>> Looks pretty fast. :D
 BF>> Thanks to the FidoWeb yes, but still not the most efficient
 BF>> path from within R20.
 ml> there is no provision in anything FTN for figuring out and
 ml> following the fastest path from one system to another

Most of the Fidonet doesn't need that.

 ml> so there's no way to figure any sort of ""efficient path"" from
 ml> anywhere to anywhere else...

There is at least one quite similar to OSPF, but documenting it would take a whole eternity - first translate the "brief" description from Russian, after that write an FSP... just for 10...20 more nodes to have a bit faster netmail delivery?


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