Subj : reliability
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Mon Sep 14 2020 08:23 pm

Hello, August Abolins.
On 9/14/20 8:53 PM you wrote:

 AA> Hello Stas! ** On Sunday 13.09.20 - 11:19, Stas Mishchenkov wrote 
 AA> to Charles Pierson:
 SM>> Of course, I would like to have the reliability of work 
 SM>> comparable to Telegram services, but we must not forget that Fido 
 SM>> is an amateur network and most of the nodes are located on home 
 SM>> computers, the reliability of which is not comparable to the 
 SM>> reliability of data centers.

Strange. I don't recall seeing this message. And age is making the memory bad.
 
 AA> At least the conversations for TgM users will be unaffected   with 
 AA> a downtime in FTN.

Ahh, the joys of conversations going on. Then everyone playing catch-up when the break down is fixed.
 
 AA> The situation is not unlike a group of users feeding off one   
 AA> particular BBS while all the other BBSes in the network are   
 AA> offline. At least the users associate with the 1st BBS can   keep 
 AA> communicating. In the TgM case, the users will have the   
 AA> reliability of a well supported data center.

There is that.

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