Subj : Re: ping netmail - Does M To : WKITTY42 From : PSI-JACK Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm On 09/02/14, wkitty42 said the following... wk> ping usage used to be fairly common in Z1 but a lot of folks have left wk> and the knowledge has left with them as well... it is during times like wk> this when the knowledge and usage is resurrected... especially when it wk> is helpful in trracking down problems like what is being seen by the OP wk> ;) Exactly. After it was mentioned, I suddenly started recalling the info, as my original BBS ~20 years ago used OT-Tracker for that very purpose, especially since I was a local FidoNet hub for the area I was in, providing several hundred people a stable feed. Honestly, if Mystic can be the swiss army knife all in one, it would continue to make it thrive as the best solution out there. Having ping would just be one more step to that fact. :) wk> in any case, having a mailer that can respond to ping is on the same wk> grounds of having a mailer/router that can add VIA lines to netmail wk> transiting the system... i have at least one system that drops netmail wk> off on my main system that doesn't place a VIA line in the netmails wk> being delivered... it took me a bit of research and rummaging in the wk> logs to figure out how those netmails were arriving... but that's wk> another thing... wk> wk> FWIW: having ping capability is a GoodThing for the benefits it wk> provides... especially in networks where there is no certain and specific wk> netmail routing structure set up ;) Here here! Yeah, definitely would be nice to have it built-in and native, no doubt there. I mean, it's been in the FTSC spec for, what, 15? 20 years? I forget when I shut down my BBS, but I know I had the support for it at the time, likely before it was completely standardized, and even then it was amazingly useful in such a disjointed spoke and hub network system FTN has always been. >>>[Psi-Jack -//- Decker's Heaven] --- Mystic BBS v1.10 A51 (Linux) * Origin: Decker's Heaven * deckersheaven.com (46:1/142) þ Synchronet þ thePharcyde_ >> telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) .