Subj : Re: ping netmail - Does M
To : G00R00
From : PSI-JACK
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm
On 09/02/14, g00r00 said the following...
g0> I've been a FidoNet Sysop since 1992 and I never heard of it before, or
g0> noticed any tosser that supports it. I'm not quite sure this goes back
g0> 20 years! :)
g0>
g0> The problem with this idea is that its not very useful unless most
g0> systems support PING...
g0>
g0> Seeing as many of the major tossers were out of development prior to this
g0> being a thing, it will never be supported except by the few still writing
g0> Fido software. I do like the "idea" of this, but I just don't see it
g0> being very useful unless the adoption rate is really high.
g0>
g0> In any case, I've added it to the starting-to-get-pretty-large TODO list
While this is true, it wasn't /standardized/ until late, but O/T-Track came
out long before that. O/T-Track came out in 1992 for exactly the purpose of
helping track routes, but yeah.. I know I was one system that used it as soon
as I'd heard about it.
This particular feature doesn't need to be high priority really, but being
implemented would help keep surviving this spoke and hub network system known
as FTN. Especially to help in diagnosing problems like the one I'm currently
facing now, where I can't even /receive/ netmail via FidoNet because
something's wrong somewhere.
And you, sir, would be the reason it would help come back to the surface by
implementing it natively into Mystic, because you'll only get more Mystic
users at your rate of good software.
I /am/ possibly, for now, considering the notion of running O/T-Track via
DOSEMU, before having Mystic process mail, but I'm not sure how well that'll
work out. eheh
