15 Mar 15 16:05, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 KR> Fidonet needs reliability or more users will leave.

In terms of reliability alone as far as I'm concerned the biggest threat to
FidoNet has always been the issue of upstream netmail/echomail nodes going down
permanently without warning. Reconfiguring your netmail and echomail links when
communicating with a new node can be a pain in the arse, especially if you're
connected to multiple systems. And that's after you mess around establishing
communication with a new node (often a complete stranger who may only read
their netmail once a week), exchanging passwords, etc.

It can be days (if not weeks) before you're reconnected to the echos you were
connected to previously, and that's if you can find a reliable system that has
all the echos you want. And that's only after you've noticed your upstream mail
provider has gone down, then waited a few days for it to come back online (only
for it to just disappear forever).

Currently I get the bulk of my echomail from two other zone 3 nodes. In the
past it was more like five or six, some in zone 1. Each time a node has gone
offline I've had to reconfigure my echos, and I cringe whenever I do it. I
suspect I'll be leaving Fido once both of those upstream links have gone
permanently offline, because I'm really over the idea of having to reestablish
comms each time.

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