CC> Redundancy is KEY to anyone who is operating an ONLINE environment IMO.
 CC> What if someone wanted to do it like the following:

 CC>   if binkp.tkdsoftware.com is not available then
 CC>     connect to binkp2.tkdsoftware.com
 CC>     if binkp2.tkdsoftware.com is not available then
 CC>       dial to 704-596-0938
 CC>       if connection failed on dialup, HOLD mail
 CC>       end if
 CC>     end if
 CC>   end if

 CC> It's really important for US who may be running both POTS and ION
 CC> statuses to be able to provide a means to give mailers a way to try to
 CC> connect. Providing some type of preference on connection would be great
 CC> I think too...  Thoughts?

This is another area that SLF is limiting. Listing multiple connection
methods so that a remote system could do something like you suggest. I think
it is needed Chris and that is one of the reason I am for a new nodelist
format.

With best regards, Dale Ross.  E-mail: Dale.Ross{at}p1.f1.n379.z1.fidonet.org

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