Subj : proposed new nodelist [2]
To : Jasen Betts
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jul 24 2002 07:01 pm
JB>>> what's a node if the same system is in the nodelist three
JB>>> times with three different phone numbers (maybe with different
JB>>> brands of modem) but all attached to the same messagebase is it
JB>>> one node or three?
ml>> a messagebase does NOT a node make...
JB> true, do you intend to answer the question? I'll rephrase it
JB> in more general language, if three SLF nodelist lines are
JB> functionally equivalent as far as the handling of mail, FREQs
JB> etc sent to them but inly differ in their conection mechanisms
JB> (mailer type, transport mendiam, etc) are they three nodes ot
JB> is it one?
i would have to say yes, whether it is one machine or more than one that is
actually processing the data behind the connection type... i'm thinking of a
network where one machine is doing POTS and another doing IP and they both drop
their inbounds into a central directory and maybe a third machine processes it
all...
