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  • Re: vinyl resting place

    From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to mark lewis on Fri Feb 21 16:54:39 2020

    *** Answering a msg posted in area FIDOTEST.

    Hi mark,

    On 2020-02-21 09:48:05, you wrote to me:

    And btw a Pvt node can't be a RIN.

    why not? there's plenty of room for the Pvt flag at the beginning of the nodelist entry... a completely empty field, in fact...

    P4 Had good reasons to not allow it... Maybe those reasons are no longer valid. But there is no P5...

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Wilfred van Velzen on Fri Feb 21 12:12:25 2020
    Re: Re: vinyl resting place
    By: Wilfred van Velzen to mark lewis on Fri Feb 21 2020 16:54:39


    And btw a Pvt node can't be a RIN.

    why not? there's plenty of room for the Pvt flag at the beginning of the nodelist entry... a completely empty field, in fact...

    P4 Had good reasons to not allow it... Maybe those reasons are no longer
    valid.

    so your statement was a fidonet political statement then? there's no technical reason they cannot exist...

    But there is no P5...

    true... or at least a P4.08 ;)


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  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to mark lewis on Sat Feb 22 09:46:59 2020
    Hello mark,

    On Friday February 21 2020 12:12, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

    And btw a Pvt node can't be a RIN.

    [..]

    so your statement was a fidonet political statement then? there's no technical reason they cannot exist...

    So tell me... - in this day and age when "convenient calling" is no longer limited to a relatively small geographic area - what is the TECHNICAL reason for having RINs or ZINs in the first place? What is the technical reason these nodes can not be accomodated in a normal net?


    Cheers, Michiel

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