Subj : MetroNet
To   : Atreyu
From : Roon
Date : Wed May 25 2022 00:39:34

Hello Atreyu,

23 May 22 06:54, you wrote to Deon:

 A> 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
 D>> you want t add a "hub" that can offload some work (and even crash
 D>> mail to those that wa it) - then happy to help out...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the good ol' days (tm) we changed every packet (except for the points) to
Crash in the ZMH. after changed everything to Hold.

maybe this can work

Regards,
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dp

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