Subj : New rule
To   : Nick Boel
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Thu Jul 24 2025 10:26 am

Hello Nick,

On Wednesday July 23 2025 17:10, you wrote to me:

 NB> Keep in mind, there is a fairly large population - and it's probably a
 NB> bigger population than the people actually interested in IPv6 even -
 NB> that have no clue what an IPv4 or IPv6 address is, nor do they care if
 NB> you try to explain it to them, as long as they can stream their TV
 NB> shows and connect to the internet.. that is all that matters.

Of course. But I hope and expect that different statistics apply to the Fidonet community. Joining Fidonet always required above technical knowledge and although it may be easier than in the early days, the average Fidonet sysop still is not an average internet consumer.

 >> So to all sysops that still have that bit of pioneer spirit left in>
 >> them end who are stuck with a provider that offers no native IPv6 I
 >> say: Use the service of he.net to join the Fidonet IPv6 club!

 NB> While I agree with this, some sysops can't even configure their BBS or
 NB> Golded properly. So if you care to hold their hand and walk them
 NB> through setting up a he.net tunnel, you're more than welcome to and I
 NB> commend you for doing so.. but don't get upset when you point them to
 NB> all of your terriffic Fidonews articles and they get mad at you for
 NB> pointing them to documentation. ;)

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

He.net has stopped giving away T-shirts many years ago, but I still have mine. I was very impressed that they managed to get it deliverd exactly on my birth day. A nice and welcome borthday present. :)

Having said that, of course during all those years that I have been active in promoting IPv6 in Fidonet the milage has varied. There have been successes but I also met with brick walls. All in all 100 Fidonet sysops who's node supports IPv6 isn't really that bad. Considering that there is a substantial amount of dead wood in the nodelist. I regulatly test the systems in the IPv6 list for activity. Contrary to the nodelist in general the vast majority of systems in the IPv6 list are active Fidonet systems.


Cheers, Michiel

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