Text 2546, 52 rader
Skriven 2006-12-07 15:51:00 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
   Kommentar till text 2533 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: FidoNews Editor MIA?
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Hello Carol!

On Thursday December 07 2006 13:04, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> Where is it documented? A standard ain't a standard until it is
 MvdV>> docume by a recognised body. You as FTSC member should know
 MvdV>> that.

 CS> I'm aware I never sent it in for FTSC.  I'm also aware it's in heavy
 CS> use in the 2 zones with the most ION percentages.

That would be funny if Z6 actually *had* IONs. The old joke about the mouse and
the Elifant making noise together comes to mind. What spoils the joke is that
Z6 does no have any IONs. an ION is connectable via InterNet only. Operative
word: *connectable*. yes, there are two that maskerade as IONs. Lawrence Fan
and Anatoli Tung. Contrary to what the nodeist suggests, they do not have binkp
server on-line to receive mail, so they are not ION. They are Down!

And, no Bin Li or Terri Roati are also not ION. They are TON. Telepathy Only
Nodes. They list no contact information at all, so only telepathy will do.

 CS>   It was done to make our sets easier for the rest of you to adapt.

It odes not make it easier for me at all. I still have to revert to an
undocumented feautre of my POTS mailer to compltetely stop it from attempting t
dial out to these nodes. A sysop not knowing about this undocumented feature is
out of luck.

 CS>> The exceptions are there but the drive has been established. If
 CS>> you dont have a static IP and cant be listed as PVT for some
 CS>> reason, 000-0-0-0-0 is the proper listing.

 MvdV>> Says who?

 CS> Z1 and Z6.

A backroom agreement bewteen the mouse and the hare. Conniving to overthrow the
fox, the wolf, the lion and the elephant....  Yeah right...

 MvdV>> I would be all in favour of using the new makenl and allow
 MvdV>> -Unpublishe on entries other the Pvt, but all except ZC3 seem to
 MvdV>> chicken to give i a go. :-(

 CS> It's ready when all others are.  I'm ready now.

So am I. So what stopping you?


Cheers, Michiel

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