Re: Re: FidoNews 33:04 [01/05]: List Of Fidonet Ipv6 Nodes
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to Stephen Hurd on Wed Jan 27 2016 09:23 am

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

But with people linking to whomever carries the echo and is willing, ensuring
that there's only one gate between nets becomes impossible.

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

Which is why it's a different problem than the hierarchial Fidonet solves.
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