Text 3308, 87 rader
Skriven 2012-09-14 06:26:41 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Pvt nodes vs points
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 RB> Sorry, Roy, in this case it was my own fault - I have your system
 RB> listed (with domain) in one of the "include" lists I've experimentd
 RB> with, BUT I had commented the list out in binkd.cfg and thus couldn't
 RB> reach you directly. I sent you a crashmail (with attachments) this
 RB> morning after realizing and correcting what I'd done wrong.

 RW> I can't blame you for the confusion, since there is no agreement on
 RW> how to list an IP only node in one place of the nodelisting. Some
 RW> have their INA/IBN addresses listed in the BBS name field of the
 RW> nodelisting, some have it listed after the INA flag, some have it
 RW> listed in the telephone number area. 

there are none who have it listed in field 6... that was never allowed to
happen...

 RW> And then there is software that will look at one of those and 
 RW> determine that there is no IP address to send mail to. The PVT 
 RW> flag tends to make that impossible, unless you know to set a 
 RW> netmai message to DIRECT. That works sometimes, but not always.

this is highly dependent on the software in use... you've already witnessed one
package that's behind the times and you've been using another one that was
close but falls down quite a bit requiring manual intervention...

 RW> And then you have gooroos who insist that BINKD is the one and only
 RW> program to use. 

i know that you and others are playing on G00R00 which is someone else's
handle... i'm not that person nor am i one espousing that binkd is the one and
only program to use... indeed, i'm the one pointing out that it is not FTS-0001
compatible and how it violates network policy... but, IF it is going to be
used, then yes, i do point out how it is designed to be used and how one should
expect to use it...

get your facts together, please, mr witt... or at least pay attention to those
areas where the software in question is discussed... do you really expect a
fullblown "how to use it" discussion of binkd in the dbridge echo or would you
expect to find such in the binkd echo? do you expect the maintainer of dbridge
to also support binkd or no??

 RW> As you know, I don't cater to text file configurations in a day 
 RW> when GUI works much better. 

GUI don't "work so much better"... it may be prettier and it may be only a
click away but... 

 RW> But that makes a software author work that much harder and we're 
 RW> shit out of software programmers these days. 

oh goo grief... do you really want me to write you a GUI editor for the binkd
conf file?? geez... i can set up a paypal link for contributions if that's
really all that bugging the shit out of ya... smh

 ml>>> it may actually not matter, though, if there is a f.n.z DNS record
 ml>>> for that node that points to the proper IP address ;)

 RW>> Jesssusss! Here we go with that f.n.z. crap again. Fuck that shit,
 RW>> don't bring it up again in my presence.

 RB> ;-) Note my comment to Mark on the binkd.cfg:

 RB> domain fidonet \\fido\\outbound\\fidonet 2
 RB> domain fido alias-for fidonet
 RB> domain fidonet.org alias-for fidonet

 RB> Don't know how many "alias-for" statements are accepted.

 RW> Well, AFAIK, fidonet.org is a dead entity...maybe the Ruskies know
 RW> about another method like BINKD.TXT, but they don't advertise
 RW> it...And frankly, I'm tired of hearing about it from the gooroos
 RW> who know everything. 

yeah, and you also grow wearisome about many of those things you choose to
throw about like you have for years, roy... you, too, seem to spout that you
know everything as well... especially in some cases... mainly in those cases
that you were personally involved in... so what's the difference between you
and me? now and then? not a fuckin' thing, that's what... i won't even mention
your "special" actions along with others in the ZEC election of way back when
you specifically undertook to flood the echo with so much traffic that no one
could keep up with what was really going on and they would simply choose "the
other party" as long as it wasn't the one you were against... clay tannacore
admitted that he and you were never in cahoots but you were both against one
candidate to the point that your goals and activities meshed... so play on, eh?

)\/(ark

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