Subj : NEWS::: DogBone
To   : John Dovey
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Jun 28 2021 01:31 pm

  Re: NEWS::: DogBone
  By: John Dovey to Rob Swindell on Sun Jun 27 2021 05:41 pm

 >   Re: NEWS::: DogBone
 >   By: Rob Swindell to August Abolins on Sun Jun 27 2021 15:06:03
 >
 >  RS> The "model" you're referring to appears to be the FidoNet nodelist. I
 >  RS> haven't used a FidoNet nodelist on my BBS in over 20 years and echomail
 >  RS> and netmail are working fine. Or am I missing some fundamental here?
 > Rob,
 > You make my point for me. Not just in this post, but in the way you've built
 > a "better mousetrap".  You literally demonstrate by what you said here, and
 > by the software you've written, that the FTN model is simply a choice. The
 > QWK Networking model you've built into SBBS with it's auto-routing and other
 > features proves this point probably more eloquently than anything I could
 > say!

Nice of you to say, but I really was just looking for more clarity on your
point (about the nodelist "model"?). QWKnet routing (introduced in Synchronet 
probably back around 1992) was more of a useful thing back when phone-modems 
were used to transfer mail and long-distance charges were a concern. As I think 
you've seen with DOVE-Net, QWK networks are not nearly as "distributed" these 
days and so the routing of QWK netmail is a much-less used feature. With 
Internet email so prevelant, QWK (and Fido) netmail is generally just not used 
so much these days anyway.

With DOVE-Net, I just wanted a sort of auto-pilot network: pretty much any BBS 
can join immediately (no manual "approval" or "address assignment" process 
involved) and if/when that node drops (stops logging in), it just eventually 
disappears from the network and its "address" is automatically available for 
reuse. It's worked pretty well for my intentions, but I don't think that's what 
FidoNet is all about: Traditionally, FidoNet is a more "controlled" network.
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