Text 40703, 61 rader
Skriven 2006-10-04 15:33:07 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 40658 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: DUD-file
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>exactly... this was one of the big things that souvestre and company 
>had to deal with... the concensis<sp?> at that time was that it 
>depended on what file the area was listed in... if an area was listed 
>in backbone.na or backbone.no, then the area was considered to be on 
>the backbone... if the area was listed in pvtdist.na or pvtdist.no (or 
>some other name), then it was _not_ considered to be on the 
>backbone...

 JK> When Ruth got sick and reportedly abandoned DDS, that was the last
 JK> remaining "non-filegate" FDN.. the nodediffs and nodelist, elist
 JK> files, and Fidonews while not originating on FileGate systems are
 JK> all considered now just to be "carried" by the filegate
 JK> (transported).  

understand...

 JK> We don't maintain .na, .no lists.. All are listed on filegate.zxx 
 JK> (http://www.filegate.net/filegate.zxx).  There was a separate 
 JK> section for time in it where FDNs like DDS were listed (those that 
 JK> refused to acknowlege FG policy), but as I said, that was the last 
 JK> one to leave. 

if it were myself, i'd seriously think about that multiple file thing... it is
very easy to keep your existing filegate.zxx file and simply move fidonews and
a few others that are fidocentric to another file called something else... i
know that allfix has the ability of maintaining up to 20 files... they do it in
the uplink systems config area which is where you tell allfix what systems to
send areafix messages to for file areas listed in different files...

  ie: 1:123/500 - filegate.zxx
      1:18/0    - fidofile.na
      2:20/0    - z2files.txt

and similar... if i'm not mistaken, the filebone.na format that allfix speaks
of is the old tic and raid format... i've seen filegate.zxx in the past and
seem to recall that it is also of the same format... so there'd be no problems
with doing this that i can see immediately...

 JK> As far as fidonews goes now, no doubt it's distribution will
 JK> continue as HUBs move it about the fidonet world.  I will create a
 JK> separate section for it most likely on the filegate.zxx file.

see above... i'd seriously think about moving it to another file specifically
to seperate it from being a filegate area... this is the very same thing that
the echomail backbones did when bob moravsik and some others were playing their
games with echomail areas... the 'bone systems still carried the areas but they
were not "*on* the 'bone" because they were listed in another area... because
of this, they were seen to be in "private distribution" and thus did not fall
under the backbone rules...

IIRC, there was a well known Z2C involved with this particular situation and,
IIRC2, the echo in question was ZCC-PUBLIC or such... the whole issue came
about with moravsik playing elist games to antagonize the Z2C and the 'bone(s)
assisted the Z2C by not carrying moravsik's echo on the 'bone and the Z2C's
echo in private... possibly this was actually when the (current) Z2C was the
IC?? in any case, it was done and it can be done again and very easily, i might
add ;)

)\/(ark

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