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Skriven 2012-07-30 23:38:14 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
   Kommentar till text 1629 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Ward's Z1 node number
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 JK>> "You must not assign a node number to any system until you have
 JK>> received a formal request from that system by FidoNet mail."

 MvdV>> A formal request was sent by netmail...

 ml> FROM what address TO what address and in what manner?

 MvdV> When I was a student - almost half a century ago now - we used to
 MvdV> play the "ten questions game". One student was assigned the role
 MvdV> of "asker", another the role of "answerer".  The rest was the
 MvdV> jury.

i don't know the game and have never played it... with that said, i don't play
games in this environment and never have... you, of all people, should know
that... there are many others, too, who also know this... one recent example is
my pointing out to rob swindell that his software was creating REPLY control
lines to messages that had none to start with... he has not responded to that
post and neither have i seen anything in the synchronet development area where
they post CVS changes to the synchronet code... there was one posting that
stated that something was broken since 2005 (IIRC) and hadn't been reported or
detected since...

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 MvdV> If that was the game you are playing, you are pretty good at it.
 MvdV> If I haven't lost count, you got me into an "I don't know"
 MvdV> situation in seven questions. 

thanks, i guess... kinda like the old gameshow of "i can name that tune in X
questions" eh? ;) but as stated above, i don't play games... i never have...
definitely not in this environment...

 MvdV> Having said that...

 MvdV> In the - these days rare - event that I receive an application
 MvdV> for a node number, I take a pragmatic stance. I do not go out on
 MvdV> a limb to find something formally wrong so that I can turn it
 MvdV> down.  On the contrary, I push the enveloppe. I don't care /how/
 MvdV> the request reaches me. I don't care about from or to addresses,
 MvdV> as long as it gets to me. if the candiate expresses a preference
 MvdV> for a certain number, I take that into account. I assign him a
 MvdV> number on a provisional basis and ask him to enter it into his
 MvdV> configuration. If netmail using that number works in both
 MvdV> directions, I enter the number in the nodelist.  That's it.

understood... i have received applications via email but have stood fast to the
requirement that netmail traffic must be workable between the applicant and my
system... without that, the network is broken... i am not going to break that
requirement... it is the basic capability of the network... this was what i
alluded to in my previous post about working with folk ;)

)\/(ark 

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