Subj : Win Version                         was: Bug report
To   : mark lewis
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Wed Mar 21 2012 10:57 am

Hello mark,

On Monday March 19 2012 14:34, you wrote to Roy Witt:

RW>> Not sure what binkp.net is...but:

ml> binkp.net is what was quickly put in place to replace fidonet.net when
ml> its domain registration expired and the owner couldn't get in to pay
ml> up the subscription... loosing fidonet.net would have really hurt
ml> fidonet's internet side operations...

One of the reasons I never embraced f5555.n280.z2.fidonet.net is that it
depends on one person. Fidonet is not a legal entity, so the domain must be
registered by a private person. If that person dies, looses interest or leaves
Fidonet with slamming doors, there is a problem.

Shifting to binkp.net is no good for those with legacy software that is not
configurable. Plus that the basic problem - dependency on one person - remains.

To my surprise I find that f5555.n280.z2.binkp.net exists. I never asked for
that, I can only assume someone scanned the nodelist and derived a zone file
for binkp.net from it. Makes me wonder why. The added value is zero as all the
information is already in the nodelist.


Cheers, Michiel

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