Subj : not all is lost but far too much for far too long
To : Maurice Kinal
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Jul 04 2019 08:32 pm
On 2019 Jul 04 23:24:38, you wrote to me:
ml>> the mechanism is the *Cs
MK> So I brought this up in the wrong echo?
i dunno... it was easier where there was an IC...
MK> This seems like the place for thes issues.
the FTSC was the proper place and it would pass the word to the IC who then
sent down the notice to the ZCs who sent it to the RCs who sent it to the NCs
who contacted the nodes with the problematic software...
ml>> i don't have a clue what you're speaking of
MK> I was just responding to the line that says, "getting that mechanism into
MK> operation like used to be done is a little harder to do these days for
some
MK> reason". It sounded like a "back in the good ol' days" type of thing.
MK> Sorry if I read that wrong.
oh... the lack of an IC has hampered numerous things in fidonet... sure the ZCC
looks to be able to do the same tasks but getting edicts handed down might be
troublesome...
ml>> we have to find exactly which software it is causing it
MK> Good idea.
the hard part will be getting hold of those operators and getting them to
backlevel until a fix is out... some of them set their systems up and they run
unattended except for maybe once a month or so when the operator decides to
look in on it... by then they could be out of the nodelist and not even know it
since a lot of the newer software doesn't even require a nodelist to operate...
i seem to be tagging at least one or two operators a week who's systems have
gone TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Usual Performance) for several days...
when my outbound is approaching 2000+ PKTs for one system, i start to get real
antsy... i can see it pretty easily since i have a bash script that monitors my
BSO and checks the flo files' contents for a count and date/time of the oldest
file listed...
)\/(ark
And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
it off.
... Press to test. <click> Release to detonate...
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