Subj : Re: ping netmail - Does M
To : G00R00
From : WKITTY42
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm
On 09/02/14, g00r00 said the following...
g0> Ps> It's actually in the FTN spec for netmail, adopted about 15~20 years
g0> Ps> ago, to help locate routing issues. Learned about it just recently
g0>
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've never known any /tossers/ to support it... it wasn't intended that tosser
support it... other tools should handle that task...
eg1: on my main system, netmgr looks through the mailer's MSG style
netmail area for messages to "ping" and responds to them before
setting the received bit so it skips them the next time through.
eg2: on my main system, OT-Track (a netmail tracker) acts in similar
method to netmgr and creates ping response messages.
the difference between the two is slight but suffice it to say that netmgr is
more robust and configurable whereas OT is really just a netmail tracker which
mainly ensures that VIA lines are added to netmails as well as logging them if
a problem comes up later concerning netmails transiting the system...
the other main thing about them is that they work on the original FIDO style
MSG message format...
g0> noticed any tosser that supports it. I'm not quite sure this goes back
g0> 20 years! :)
g0>
g0> Publication: FTS-5001
g0> Issue Date: 26 January 2005
g0> Review Date: 26 January 2007
that's only the date of the nodelist document... the FTSC converted to a new
numbering system... i think there was actually a document for the ping
proposal but i'm not where i can go digging thru my archives to see right
now... sadly, some documents have gone missing over time and only a very few
of us might have them in our libraries...
