Subj : Nomination
To : Ward Dossche
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Mar 01 2025 10:41 am
Hello Ward,
On Thursday February 27 2025 22:25, you wrote to me:
Mv>> Hint: Only Hosts and Hubs have routing duties.
WD> When I was elected ZC for the first time in 1994 for me it was totally
WD> ridiculous not to route. Use the tree-structure of the nodelist and
WD> netmail "always" arrives. I thought it was a genuine improvement over
WD> classic routing-schemes ...
When you were elected as ZC for the first time calling across a national border was hineously expensive. Even calling to the other side of the same country was expensive. Have you forgotten that?
There were good reasons for only hubs and hosts having routing oubligations.
