Subj : Re: something new..
To   : August Abolins
From : Nick Andre
Date : Wed Feb 01 2023 10:51 am

On 01 Feb 23  09:18:00, August Abolins said the following to All:

AA> "The FTN Clearing Houz is both an FTN Mailer and FTN message  
AA> tosser, where mail is stored internally in a DB, and files in  
AA> an S3 bucket. It can also hatch and toss files into FTN  
AA> networks for both upstream and downstream nodes.

I get a visceral reaction to anything worded like a salesman pitch that makes
it seem like running Fidonet or an FTN is some complicated full-time IT job.

Trust me... its not.

The whole project is busybody techno-dick nonsense. Written by the same genius
who was trying to shove a new packet standard down my throat years ago and who
has caused problems with his "Hub not available" Perl script nonsense I've had
to instruct now two different Sysops to stop using.

Clearing houses are obsolete dinosaurs from the 90's just like star-systems,
NAB, etc. Anyone can get a feed from anyone else, its not hard and if someone 
needs hand holding... someone cannot configure a mailer, they should not be a 
member of an FTN. Period.

Nick

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