Subj : Re: Nodelist Phone Field (consistency?)
To : Kees van Eeten
From : Ozz Nixon
Date : Thu Jun 21 2018 12:10 pm
Kv>ON> this minor consistency is an issue, wait until I share FMTP protocol
Kv> Sorry, I forgot to ask.
Kv> FMTP - Flight Message Transfer Protocol
Kv> or
Kv> FMTP - File Multicast Transport Protocol
Actually its still in DRAFT mode, we have been testing with 3 nodes in US, 1 in
Russia. FMTP (Fidonet Message Transport Protocol), v0.2b - the goal was to
leverage standard protocols on non-standard ports, so FMTP uses SMTP to relay
messages, NNTP to send/receive from BBSes. This allows our framework to evolve
and work with services already out there. e.g. BBS could offer users email,
BBSes could offer users usenet, and of course the protocols being used is how
echos would flow. We are currently working on AREAFIX and FILE TIC support -
thus, this is premature to go into details. However, I reprocessed last 18
months of mail through it at 87 to 90 messages a second - from US to Russia -
via FMTP servers (2) between he and I.
Today, I am joining a 2nd FTN network - and we will be testing to make sure the
FMTP router (tosser in our world) can handle 2 more zones with no message
bleed-over. [this is why we run it outside FTN, to avoid OOPs(PG-13)]
