Subj : Nomination
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Mar 01 2025 02:27 pm

Hello Andrew,

On Thursday February 27 2025 23:52, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Hint: Only Hosts and Hubs have routing duties.

 AL> Are there really RCs or ZCs in FidoNet today that do not route mail?

I did when I was RC, I do not know about all others. There may be a few left that don't. What I do know is that there are some I do not want to route my mail through them.

 AL> Policy 4 is outdated in this regard (as well as many others), but I'm
 AL> not going to hold my breath on it ever being updated.  I'd look silly
 AL> turning blue, after all.

Sabotaging an attempt to change P4 is easier than actually changing it. As we found out some three decades ago. :-(

Other than that: Obviously one can not form a network with nodes that can only make outgoing calls. One needs at least some nodes that can accept incoming calls. That alone places Pvt nodes in a lower class. A fully fledged node - a "node of good standing" - supports both incoming and outgoing calls.


Cheers, Michiel

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