Subj : Re: Fidonet is peer-to-peer
To   : Oli
From : tenser
Date : Thu Sep 09 2021 02:15 am

On 04 Sep 2021 at 12:41p, Oli pondered and said...
 
 Ol> Fidonet technology was always and still is peer-to-peer. Maybe not in
 Ol> the DHT /
 Ol> file sharing sense, but in the sense that all nodes (and even some
 Ol> points) are running the same kind of software and can call each other.
 Ol> Yes, people do like to build some hierarchical structures on top of it,
 Ol> but this is not a requirement.

That's only true in a literal sense, in that any node _can_ send to
any other node, but it's kind of not true in practice and in the shape
of the network; it's really designed to be hub-and-spoke, to mirror
the way the PSTN worked.

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