Subj : NETMAIL Routing
To : Ross Cassell
From : Paul Lentz
Date : Thu Jul 10 2008 12:45 pm
Ross Cassell wrote in a message to Paul Lentz:
RC> 10 Jul 08 04:09, you wrote to ALL:
PL> nets in R19 again... maybe for good, dunno. We need to address
PL> Echomail routed netmail.
PL> Net124 and node 393/11 (through me here at 124/5025) need a path
PL> re-defined from 106/1 to Ross at 123/500. Can it be done here?
RC> For the time being, let 261/38, 10/3 and 140/1 [know], that should cover
RC> most of the bases.
Oops I forgot that 393/11 feeds echomail from somewhere else and that that the
route through me (When his Nets hub disapeared) was a fix-up so he could get
netmail from the Echolist robot. I might need to check again on his prefered
path.
RC> There isnt really much of a coherent list that could be deemed as
RC> official, but I am looking at possibly putting something up at the
RC> fidonet4u site.
Thinking about how loosely ERN routes might be defined reminds me of a story of
the very first days of Echomail when it was invented here in Dallas. Jon Sabol
would sit and watch packets being passed around and around in dupe loops and
stuff non-stop till some routing was hammered out. I wonder just how many hops
a dumb netmail could go before it gets to someone who could actually deliver
it. :-)
