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echo: mystic
to: Paul Hayton
from: g00r00
date: 2021-09-20 13:00:00
subject: Re: Skip Poll?

 PH>  JH> ./mis poll (address 1) (address 2) (address 3) etc
 PH> 
 PH> Perhaps a way forward if g00r00 opts to look at this would be to be able
 PH> to create a special ini or txt file that contains the list of nodes and
 PH> or syntax in it that is read by mis poll and then executed as a poll?
 PH> 
 PH> Ideally it could use some wildcard notation or certain keywords (like
 PH> FastEcho does in it's routing file) to simplify which systems are polled
 PH> when the txt file is read my mis poll.

Maybe a fusion of both those ideas.

The POLL command could accept multiple addresses but also accept wildcards too or something.  Like "mis poll 1:*/1 21:*" or something along those lines. Although maybe this is overkill?

... No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

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