Hi,

On 2016-01-26 11:38:32, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "FidoNews 33:04 [01/05]: List Of Fidonet Ipv6 Nodes":

 WV>> You make the (often made) mistake of thinking of the fidoweb as an
 WV>> entity. It isn't an entity, it's a method!

 ml> riiiight...

 WV>> So as there isn't an enty there can't be a single list of available
 WV>> areas. The available areas to you are the areas available at your
 WV>> uplinks. You can get them by sending a %LIST to their AreaFix...

 ml> so how can you access the areafix of a system you are *not* connected to
to
 ml> see if you even want/need to connect to them???

You can always use another link in the fidoweb style of connecting (extra
redundancy). You see what's available after you made the link. ;)

 ml> BTW: what is an "uplink" if there is no top-down hierarchy?? ;)

Sorry my mistake (old habbit ;)). There are only "links" in the fidoweb, no up-
or downlinks!

Bye, Wilfred.


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