-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to Scott Little <=-

 SL> bigger and all the echos together carry about 25-50 meg of mail per day.
 PE> Yes, they tend not to answer that point.

That's coz they know I'm right.

 PE> nodes come up with some new technology such as ISDN, we will have
 PE> a problem.  However, the nodediffs should not be a problem.

Telstra have to figure out something soon. Perhaps now that they have taken
over AARnet and they provide cable/satelite TV then it wont be long before
a fibre optic cable runs close you your house and you can get them to run an
extention in for data comms. That'll make 38400 comms much easier. When/if
Telstra convert to digital, someone can just mix a modem with a LAN network
card, a digital link is much easier than all this MODulation DEModulation.

 PE> It only takes me a few minutes to process the nodelist here.
 PE> Since if I really cared about it, and I don't, I could run

Same here. But it gotta do it twice tho, one for frontdoor, one for the BBS.
 
 SL> process and store. The current nodelist takes long enought to process and
 PE> If you're experiencing time delays in searching the nodelist,
 PE> change software.  MSGED/SQ will match a nodelist to a userid

Not yet. Slight delays will become more noticable as the list gets bigger. Not
a real problem, but annoying.

 PE> Anyway, I think that this "problem" should be dealt with when there
 PE> is a hell of a lot more evidence for such a problem existing.
 PE> Wake me up when you think we've reached that point, and I'll
 PE> tell you how you're not worse off costwise than you used to

When Telstra get off their butts and convert to digital, entirely, I'll drop
you a line. Won't a 38400 or even a 5-10 Mbps link be nice :)

Regards,
 - SoNiC
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