27 Jan 16 09:23, you wrote to Stephen Hurd:

 SH>> They do become more obvious though... the zone gates have always
 SH>> needed a bunch of extra work to deal with the 2D seenbys and paths.
 SH>> Bypassing the zone gates means needing to either to do same thing as
 SH>> them (which will create endless loops) or ensuring that 2D addresses
 SH>> are globally unique and explicitly NOT behaving like a zone gate.

 WV> So thank god for good dupe checking... Hmm, if only sbbsecho would do
 WV> that on forwarded messages...

that's a sysop option... forward all or don't...

 SH>> The problems of multiple cross-zone fidoweb links is a different
 SH>> problem to a single cross-zone fidoweb gateway, so it is a specific
 SH>> problem to the fidoweb way or routing.

 WV> The solution is the same as for hierarchical routing: Just have the
 WV> one gate between different nets.

 WV> Who needs echomail gates between nets anyway these days. It's very
 WV> simple for everyone to connect everywhere, and connect the areas they
 WV> want. So gates are not needed...

there never were gates between nets... there were zone gates to gate messages
between FTNs, though...

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