Subj : proposed new nodelist                                    [2]
To   : Malcolm Miles
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Fri Jul 19 2002 12:23 pm

Hi Malcolm.

18-Jul-02 13:31:55, Malcolm Miles wrote to Jasen Betts


 MM> On Jul 16, 2002 Jasen Betts wrote to Peter Knapper:

 JB>> Requiring Hosts to be POTS capable is unlikely to be a permanent
 JB>> solution unless IP nodes can exist without a host.

 MM> Why not? The PSTN system is not going to go away in the future.

it;s already gone. making rules in this echo won't force the existing
IP-only or uncontactable zone 1 hosts to install phone lines and modems.

 MM> Requiring a host node to have a phone line that can receive calls
 MM> at ZMH is not an onerous requirement. If all nodes in a net are
 MM> IP-capable then the net can be quite large so fewer hosts in a
 MM> region/zone would be required than today

yeah, that requires reorganisation and loss of political power and the Z1
people take the politics seriously - what else can explain their two
echomail distribution systems.

 JB>> The main problem I see with multi-listed systems is the mailer
 JB>> being able to recognise it as multi-listed and pick the most
 JB>> appropriate node so send the mail to.

 MM> It is not the mailer's responsibility to determine which node a
 MM> message should be sent to. It is the mailer's responsibility to
 MM> select the most appropriate transport mechanism to use to send a
 MM> message to a particular node

yeah, what's a node  if the same system is in the nodelist three times with
three different phone numbers (maybe with different brands of modem) but
all attached to the same messagebase is it one node or three?

 -=> Bye <=-

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