Subj : Old Versus New - Ways
To : Janis Kracht
From : Richard Webb
Date : Tue Jul 15 2008 01:41 pm
HI Janis,
Janis Kracht wrote in a message to Richard Webb:
> Internet isn't practical here at the moment, hence I"m plain ol' modem on a
> phone line only. My nc is internet only, no pots, but we've arranged
JK> Danny Walters is your NC, correct? He needs to update his nodelist
JK> entry if he doesn't have POTS going over there.
Last I knew no answer on that number, that's why he routes things to you for me
to keep from creating a loop with Ross's system. HOwever I think we have that
fixed now. We got it worked out anyway.
NOt sure if it was his or nec's that was answered by somebody else, but think
his modem went on the fritz and he just never bothered to replace it.
JK> Maybe Ross has an email address for him and can contact him about
JK> that.
JK> That's good - and you have a connection here as well which is good -
JK> my system can do any type of connection necessary. From here, mail
JK> is going to flow right to the main Star systems and RCs, most of
JK> whom have agreed to take any netmail I get in for their regions.
Always a good thing. Because of this I poll you at least twice per day, right
after zmh, and evenings, even if I"m not home <g>>
> Still wonder if nodes such as myself and others who are not internet capable
> should endeavor to fly the ping flag to help those building routing tables.
JK> That's so software specific though. For instance, I don't have a
JK> ping feature in any of the software I run.
Yah I know, and a problem. HOWever, these days internet only seems to be as
standard, at least this side of the world, as pots used to be. A C with a
difficult to connect with node in his/her coverage area could always send a
netmail to ping at the troublesome address. I"ve set up a ping mask for netmgr
here. Haven't had a real good chance to test it, were some netmail routing
glitches happening at the time when a z2 node was going to test drive it and
see if it met spec. from all appearances it should however.
Was a thought anyway.
Best bet's still good old fashioned human to human communication <g>.
Regards,
Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
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