Subj : Re: MetroNet
To   : Deon
From : Atreyu
Date : Mon May 23 2022 06:54:25

On 23 May 22  14:35:03, Deon said the following to Exodus:

 > My IREX only supports so many nodes to poll out.  And it's at MAX.  Plus
D> for a hub to crash everything is kinda ridiculus.
D> 
D> I dont agree with your last point - but understand your issue. If you want t
D> add a "hub" that can offload some work (and even crash mail to those that wa
D> it) - then happy to help out... 

Maybe its a preference of the Hub. Maybe you enjoy playing the role of 
mailman. But I discovered 25 years ago how inefficient "Crash" really is.

The unfortunate frustration is encountering far too many Sysops all wanting
feeds and telling me the same stories. I miss my old board, I'm a longtime
Sysop, I'm glad to be back and I'm back "for good", if you need a Hub I'll
help out, my board runs on a VM in some cloud, I'll never vanish, etc etc.

A month or so later when they don't get any callers to their stock boards, 
they disappear.

Then theres those who love to "experiment" - they have no idea what they're
doing so sometimes their mailer works, sometimes not. Sometimes theres
those who don't run things 24/7, they take their board down randomly.

Now multiply this by over a hundred downlinks and it gets a little inefficient
to have my mailer calling out to about, on average, a quarter to half of them
being really "down" at any random moment whenever I look at the console.

So I tell everyone that all mail is placed in Hold for you to poll here 
whenever you can. Whether you poll every minute, every day, every week, every 
month. I don't care. But I'm not calling you.

I can also run a script that can very easily tell me who has not polled 
here in X amount of days or has mail piling-up...

Atreyu

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 * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (25:25/5)

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