Subj : Monitoring FidoNet
To   : All
From : John Dovey
Date : Wed May 26 2021 06:14 pm

  Re: It seems there are various different ideas floating around:
  By: John Dovey to All on Thu May 27 2021 00:49:08

Here's another aspect to the "monitoring" where the user agent idea would help.
I'm posting this message from a node that is completely unreachable from the 
net. It sits on my local network and I'm fighting with my ISP to allow me to 
create a DMZ where incoming traffic is allowed. Be that as it may, it is in the 
Nodelist with a "HOLD" tag, which in practice means that this node has to call 
out (poll) for mail and only users inside my network can connect to it. As it 
happens, I have a couple who sit here and connect to my wifi that I'm teaching 
to use this stuff.. Monitoring by ping or icmp etc isn't ever going to reach 
this node, but there is no trouble with me initiating outgoing connections as 
much as I wish. 

JD

John
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