Subj : Is binkp/d's security model kaputt?
To   : apam
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Dec 31 2021 09:22 pm

  Re: Is binkp/d's security model kaputt?
  By: apam to Digital Man on Sat Jan 01 2022 02:55 pm

 >  > I find the topic of a new messsage network technology interesting and
 >  > have been following along here.
 >
 > It's interesting, I'm kind of a little bit fickle about the idea, I'm not
 > really sure it's worth pursuing. I mean, from a development point of
 > view, making new things for the sake of making new things can be fun, but
 > who would use it?

It's always possible that a network could be formed (or switch to) a non-FTN technoloy. And that could then be a new technology. But so far, I haven't found any limitation or issue with QWK that I couldn't address, so that's where I tend to focus my message-networking-innovation. I appreciate your adopting (and testing the interoperability) of some of my QWKnet extensions too.

 >  > However, before anything "new" is proposed, I suggest a careful
 >  > examination of what is wrong with the current technology (FTN). I've
 >  > started my own list here:
 >
 > Yep, I agree, I read your list, and think it's pretty much spot on.
 >
 > To be honest though, I think it's a kind of dead end. It's interesting to
 > talk about though I suppose.

Yeah, probably a dead end. There's the occasional discussion of the same
subject on FidoNet proper (e.g. Future4fido echo), but I don't think it's ever
going to amount to much because of the compatiblity issue.

 > Happy birthday by the way, not sure if it was today or yesterday..
 > facebook told me, but I don't know how that works with timezones :)

Thanks. It's still the 31st here in California, so still my birthday (the Unix epoch, for this timezone anyway). :-)
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