Text 612, 56 rader
Skriven 2006-12-29 21:10:14 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
    Kommentar till text 604 av Scott Little (3:712/848)
Ärende: Re: Election '06: Ballot
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*** Quoting Scott Little from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> Janis works as well and this time, speed is just an hour or so
 CS> difference.

SL> I've got secure links with both Janis, Barry and soon Bob Seaborn, so
SL> I can pick and choose.

From what I can tell so far, link to Bob or janis. It's actually a bit better
to link to Bob or so it seems from the links, but not that much diffrence.
Nothing wrong with Barry, just that he adds a hop.


SL> It's a pity Fidonet doesn't even have a reliable PING function (some s
SL> support it, but not all) much less an equivalent of BGP or other autom
SL> routing mechanism, otherwise I'd be able to identify trouble and route
SL> around it quicker.

Yeah, but it follows netmail not echomail path right?  Echomail was what we
needed.


SL> There used to be at least one pretty well managed (AFAICT) echomail ba
SL> infrastructure in Z1 and a regularly hatched map of what went where (i
SL> as a routelist for ERN (echomail-routed-netmail), IIRC), but it was un
SL> discontinued a while ago.  The map made it a lot easier to figure out
SL> going on with traffic that didn't obey the nodelist paths, but now all
SL> those details are pretty much private unless one specifically goes ask
SL> for details.

Yes.  Thats what I offer if we want, to make for just our limited echo.  It;s
not that hard with just a few of us.  If you want it, I can do it.  Expect 3D.

 CS> dead on, but not in the way I would have started and did not make it
 CS> out to be 3 options with what each was useful for (sorry to the rest,

SL> I'm not huge on the star topology idea, unless he means for the center
SL> to be a small, fully-connected mesh network of highly reliable nodes (
SL> with automated routing as mentioned above) and everyone else linking e
SL> via the old style nodelist rules or somewhere in the meshed backbone.

I'm not huge on single point of failure and see a need to just narrow out the
paths a bit, then get a sort of 'chart' on how we connect so that if someone
goes missing, we can see fast and easy where it might be.  I am definately not
into making a bunch relink to new sites.


SL> Go for it.  We need at least seven and up to thirteen members in the n
SL> election, so there's plenty of room.


Waiting your netmail <g>.  I got the second 'meep meep' today.
                                       xxcarol

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