Subj : Re: hackers
To   : apam
From : tenser
Date : Fri Jan 20 2023 11:36 am

On 20 Jan 2023 at 07:36a, apam pondered and said...
 
 ap>  > For that matter, node limits and timeouts are an anachronism.
 ap>  > I suspect they survive in the "modern" BBS era simply because
 ap>  > that's how things have always been done.
 ap> 
 ap> that and multinode doors would be interesting to set up without a concept
 ap> of nodes. (i'm thinking of the ones that require config files for each
 ap> node)

I think it's ok to have a concept of a "node", it's just
the artificially low limits on them that I balk at in 2023.
A Raspberry Pi is absurdly more powerful than what people
were running multinode BBSes on back in the 90s, so why do
we limit the systems the way we did back then?

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