Subj : Re: 2025 FTSC election
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Feb 22 2025 03:23 pm
Re: Re: 2025 FTSC election
By: Wilfred van Velzen to Rob Swindell on Fri Feb 21 2025 11:56 am
> Hi Rob,
>
> On 2025-02-20 16:15:00, you wrote to me:
>
> >> Have you heard about something called the nodelist? ;-)
>
> RS> Yeah, of course, though I haven't used one in over 20 years.
>
> At all?
Right (and in truth, it's been more than 20 years).
> Isn't synchronet/binkit able to use a nodelist?
BinkIt does have that feature/option (to read hostnames and port numbers from a nodelist), but I don't use that feature (and I'm not the primary author of BinkIt).
> >> # grep 'Region,' NODELIST.045
> >>
> >> And use the output of that...
>
> RS> That produces 31 lines without complete addresses, e.g.
>
> It's all you need to know.
>
> RS> Region,92,Panama,Pedasi_Panama,John_Dovey,-Unpublished-,300,CM,IBN:gato
> RS> fue go.s
> RS> y nchronetbbs.org,PING
>
> You are using an old nodelist! Region,92 was removed from the nodelist on:
> 27 Nov 2024
Confirmed, that was an old nodelist, the latest I have now reports:
$ grep -c Region, NODELIST.052
30
> Actually there are 30.
>
> RS> Is each supposedly reachable via netmail at <zone>:<region>/1?
>
> No, it is: <zone>:<region>/0
>
> That should work unless their system is misconfigured. In which case it's
> questionable if they should be a RC. ;-)
