Subj : Funny code section
To : Mark Lewis
From : Mike Luther
Date : Tue Mar 23 2010 11:01 am
Chiming in here too Mark and MvLe and all!
> number... also, there's been many times that i've seen someone
> online on my bbs that was obviously having problems or was needing
> assistance while they were online... if they only list phone number,
> it is rather hard to call them to help if they are using that number
> for their connection... however, if they list two numbers, then it
> is a much easier task to call them and walk them thru things while
> they are online or trying to come online...
ml> MvLe> Are you serious ? You actually spend money to -call- people to
ml> MvLe> assist their BBS use ? ...
Yes and ABSOLUTELY necessary in some cases for Emergency Operations Center
(EOC) mission critical military and public service reasons. Read on please.
ml> what $$$? we're talking about a local call... not
ml> something half way around the world... local calls
ml> don't cost a thing over here...
And in MANY cases now in the whole USA there is no such thing as $$ long
distance calls anywhere in the whole USA or even into MANY countries using POTS
call techniques. There are now many telephone services here that include *ALL*
long distance calls completely in your monthly phone bill flat rate service
charge. Even as I think I am correct in stating that it may even be less than
USD $20 a month for such services.
Which absolutely CAN be used in many cases for BBS message and file transfer
work, particularly for BACKUP mission critical communication when what most
people think is total bliss IP service ** is gone. For however long 'gone' is
or is going to be. Please read on.
FidoNet 1/117 here of which I'm the NC has a lot more responsibility that just
the 'normal' message stuff that we tend to think is the purpose of FidoNet.
Although it has very few nodes published in the formal NodeList, it also has
some 50 more PRIVATE nodes which are *NOT* published in the formal NodeList and
have *NEVER* been the subject of a problem for FidoNet as to 'improper' access.
This very special collection of nodes is TOTALLY capable of POTS phone
connections for backup and emergency file data and message purposes in case the
normal IP service for an EOC or a medical facility or whatever ceases to be
available for whatever reason. But a telephone connection still can be made
between two facilities that are desparate to share even low level data and
message service.
Don't laugh. It *CAN* and *DOES* happen. Here in the USA, for actual fact,
hurricane penetration on the Gulf Coast has taken down the complete electrical
power grid operations for entire major land areas for longer than a week at a
time. And in certain rural areas, even though now power is there, POTS
telephone line operation is still present in that the phone lines, which in
many cases are buried cables,are still there, still work, and still connected
to rural POTS switches which are kept operational with emergency generator
services. I have actually seen East Texas small town medical service which has
POTS service but no IP service for even two weeks that *COULD* access the
mission critial 1:117/3000 FidoNet node by no other than POTS phone
connections. And in some cases the FidoNet Net 117 *HAS* been used for such
emergency data service as was needed. By POTS long distance service work.
Which *CAN*, in the case of ZIPLOG mission critical professional support
template sofware for which I am responsible and author, be used for condensed
but SERIOUSLY IMPORTANT life and death support for the people that choose to
use this techqnique in time of emergency. And I have a formal thank you letter
from the USA ARRL ham radio organization hanging on the wall for proof that
this *CAN* be done even all across the world from FidoNet while even operating
for test purposes from the ham radio Field Day operations with the fully
integrated ZIPLOG managment software template matched to FidoNet. Should this
ever be needed and people choose to use the technique. Yes with PRIVATE nodes
in the network that DO NOT show up in the FidoNet formal NodeList for VERY good
reasons which I think most reading this can appreciate.
You also BADLY need to realize that there are a whole host of evolving IP
service corruption and destruction possibilities that are part of what all of
us telecommunications professional folks know is going to be a part of the
telecommunications revolution. Which has only, seriously,just begun. That
includes wartime and conflict deliberate issues, as well as the threat of EMP
pulse destruction of virtually all copper wired technology, as well as what is
even less understood, the probablity of Solar Flare massive eruption. Do not
laugh. The total loss of the entire power grid operations in the whole world
is also possible from solar flare eruptions. Few here know about the last
major one we took here on earth in the mid 1800's at the time of the driving of
the Golden Spike when the railroad was first finished connecting the East and
West coast of the USA. 1867 from memory here right now.
At that time the communications for the whole affair was by copper wired
telegraph instruments and telegraph code. And yes, land line Morse Code is
different in the characters than what virtually all of us today know as
International Morse Code. A long dash for a number zero instead of what we
know as five dashes as in '- - - - -', today. That actual Solar Flare took out
and burned up almost ALL of the telepgraph sounders in the whole USA! As well,
in some places, the electrical charge that the railroad rails picked up, from
the electromagnetic pulse that hit us from the sun, actually set the wooden
cross ties on fire where it arced across them to the ground from the rails!
Just one nuclear blast sets forth at least a 30,000,000 volt per METER
wavefront moving out to the horizon at the speed of light, folks. The last
test atomic airborne blast in the Pacific about 650 miles from Hawaii, took out
about half of all the traffic signals in the whole island area in 'sight line'
with no ground mountain blockabge, from the US Navy test blast there at the
Johnson Island complex. Tough luck if you have a pacemaker heart device. You
die.
And true, we *CAN* defend against this type of a problem with fiber optic cable
connected devices and not metal cable connected service. And buried phone
lines; not upstairs phone line service. And we *CAN* use correctly designed
computer systems with power supplies that *DO* block the pulse pickup from
power line and printer and phone connections of sorts. As fact I have a test
relay rack server case here on site which I cooperated with the vendor on EMP
pulse protection desging which can be certified for such service. But we will
no be able to protect any Cell Phones or Ipods or anything like that. Life as
we know it will be GONE for who knows how long if we get hit.
But at the final step backwards in providing even food, water, basic medical
care and even knowing where to send the first, second, third responders;
whatever, we *MUST* have communications programs which *CAN* use ----
PLAIN ORDINARY TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR ADDRESSING.
Case closed.
Please *DO NOT* remove this from the work on MAX, BINK; Whatever. To do so
would be a horrible step in taking away what we *CAN* do for all the world, if
we continue to contribute to FidoNet as some of us do still today for reasons I
have shown you above.
It is ABSOLUTELY necessary to preserve the POTS phone number access and use
techniques in BBS software.
--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)
Mike @ 1:117/3001
--- Maximus/2 3.01
* Origin: Ziplog Public Port (1:117/3001)
