Subj : Re: MetroNet
To   : Atreyu
From : deon
Date : Wed May 25 2022 13:15:26

  Re: Re: MetroNet
  By: Atreyu to Deon on Mon May 23 2022 06:54 am

 > 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.
 >
 > 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.

I dont really see these as signficant problems to warrant "crash is ineffiecient" (at least in my experience anway). Your mailer calling a dead end is not good - I think that is on par with your hard drive filling up with uncollected outbound mail. In fact the end result is probably the same.

Sure its annoying when downlinks disappear without telling you, but some configuration and automation "that script you mention" can help you be on top of it, and depending how smart it is, address it too. The architecture of this network can also distribute the workload, although some folks dont seem to enthused to do that.


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