*** Quoting Bj”rn Felten from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> One of my goals is to get all the bad numbers out of the Z6 list, but I
 CS> need a kludge to use and so far, 000-0-0-0-0 (or a static IP with
 CS> 000-staticquads) is all I have to work with just now.

BF>    I think that the most important job for you, for now, is to make ev
BF> in your zone aware about the 'fidonet.net' variant. Every BinkP mailer

And I agree with that as it suits Z6, except we might need some help to get
¨that rolling to get folks listed.  Z6 no longer has a Z6 'servicer' (if
that ¨makes sense).  The 'Doc' in Singapore was our site and he is now gone
from ¨Fidonet.

But note that my problem is not how to IP list, or even deal with
fidonet.net, ¨but how to list an NC or RC who is ION and get 'something' in
there that is ¨functional for all of us.  I cant 'Pvt' some of them, so
have to plug in ¨'something' in the phone field.

One of the things I've learned at work, (and i am sure I aint alone!) is to
¨make a plan based on the POSSIBLE within current rules, then work to
change the ¨rules if they are not good ones.

Fidonet.net has excellent aspects for us out here, but provides no answers
to ¨other than an end node if they have no static IP or phone line to use
in the ¨nodelist format itself when that is the critical problem.

BF>    In Z1 Jame Clay seems to fight an up-hill struggle to introduce the
BF> superior fidonet.net version (with all those echo-popes still protecti
BF> their private little fiefdoms in Z1, I don't envy him), but I suggest
BF> you drop him a mail asking him what you can do to make Z6 totally fido
BF> compliant.

And i will, I think he can host us tiny numbers with his set easy enough,
but ¨thats a molehill I have not gotten to yet.  For now, I'm concentrating
on a ¨safe Z6 segment that will not cause problems to the rest of fidonet.
                                       xxcarol

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