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echo: locsysop
to: John Tserkezis
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1997-04-16 07:14:54
subject: network proposal

JT> Sorta like the way normal email addresses work now, you have your own 
JT> mailbox, but people actually have to contact your host on behalf of you to 
JT> contact you. Do you propose on using another type of
"nodelist" or the 
JT> current internet practice of "if you don't tell anyone, they
won't know" 
JT> type system..

I think the latter.  However, anyone can maintain a list of nodes if they
wish to.  It's just that if you get taken off someone's list, it doesn't
mean you are kicked out of the network.

JT> What about access software, will you be devising a whole new protocol, or
JT> use existing protocols, or is this still in the "thinking about
it" stage?

Using existing internet protocols, definitely.  BFN.  Paul.
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