Subj : Nomination
To : Andrew Leary
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Mar 01 2025 02:27 pm
Hello Andrew,
On Thursday February 27 2025 23:52, you wrote to me:
MV>> Hint: Only Hosts and Hubs have routing duties.
AL> Are there really RCs or ZCs in FidoNet today that do not route mail?
I did when I was RC, I do not know about all others. There may be a few left that don't. What I do know is that there are some I do not want to route my mail through them.
AL> Policy 4 is outdated in this regard (as well as many others), but I'm
AL> not going to hold my breath on it ever being updated. I'd look silly
AL> turning blue, after all.
Sabotaging an attempt to change P4 is easier than actually changing it. As we found out some three decades ago. :-(
Other than that: Obviously one can not form a network with nodes that can only make outgoing calls. One needs at least some nodes that can accept incoming calls. That alone places Pvt nodes in a lower class. A fully fledged node - a "node of good standing" - supports both incoming and outgoing calls.
