Hello mark!

08 Apr 15 18:58, you wrote to John Guillory:

 JG>>    Some NC's use an automated Ping System, by which they send a
 JG>> net-mail message out, and the sysop is required to reply to it in
 JG>> order to stay listed, otherwise the board gets marked down, and
 JG>> after so many weeks, it gets removed.

 ml> interesting... i don't think i've heard of this before... it would be easy
 ml> enough to automate the responses, though... netmgr handles things like
 ml> this with its eyes closed...

 The systems that receive the pings and answer in some way or another are o.k.
 It would weed out the large number of systems that have ceased to exist,
 such as the 130+ nodes that are listed with hostnames, that do no longer
 exist in DNS.

Kees

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