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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Rob Swindell
from: Sean Dennis
date: 2023-04-09 20:15:00
subject: Re: BBS Software Timeout

-=> Rob Swindell wrote to Dennis Scott <=-

 RS> Current versions of Synchronet support up to 250 nodes. Realistically,
 RS> nobody configures anywhere near that many nodes mainly because
 RS> configuring door games to support dozens of nodes (for many multinode
 RS> doors, anyway), is a big hassle. It's much easier to just enforce a
 RS> maximum duration of user inactivity and keep the number of configured
 RS> nodes to some a number you'd reasonably expect to need for *active*
 RS> user connections.


For decades, I've always configured my BBS for four nodes with doors, et
cetera.  Most of my callers are pulling mail pakcets or grabbing files
anyway.  MBSE supports unlimited nodes but that's only for bots calling...

-- Sean

... Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.
--- MMail/FreeBSD
                     
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