Subj : Re: ping netmail - Does M
To : WKITTY42
From : PSI-JACK
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm
On 09/02/14, wkitty42 said the following...
wk> ping usage used to be fairly common in Z1 but a lot of folks have left
wk> and the knowledge has left with them as well... it is during times like
wk> this when the knowledge and usage is resurrected... especially when it
wk> is helpful in trracking down problems like what is being seen by the OP
wk> ;)
Exactly. After it was mentioned, I suddenly started recalling the info, as my
original BBS ~20 years ago used OT-Tracker for that very purpose, especially
since I was a local FidoNet hub for the area I was in, providing several
hundred people a stable feed.
Honestly, if Mystic can be the swiss army knife all in one, it would continue
to make it thrive as the best solution out there. Having ping would just be
one more step to that fact. :)
wk> in any case, having a mailer that can respond to ping is on the same
wk> grounds of having a mailer/router that can add VIA lines to netmail
wk> transiting the system... i have at least one system that drops netmail
wk> off on my main system that doesn't place a VIA line in the netmails
wk> being delivered... it took me a bit of research and rummaging in the
wk> logs to figure out how those netmails were arriving... but that's
wk> another thing...
wk>
wk> FWIW: having ping capability is a GoodThing<tm> for the benefits it
wk> provides... especially in networks where there is no certain and specific
wk> netmail routing structure set up ;)
Here here! Yeah, definitely would be nice to have it built-in and native, no
doubt there. I mean, it's been in the FTSC spec for, what, 15? 20 years? I
forget when I shut down my BBS, but I know I had the support for it at the
time, likely before it was completely standardized, and even then it was
amazingly useful in such a disjointed spoke and hub network system FTN has
always been.
