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to: DAVID DRUMMOND
from: DAN CLOUGH
date: 2019-03-12 08:20:00
subject: Trying to connect to the

-=> David Drummond wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 BF>> With only all the working BBSs nodelisted, and all the other,
 BF>> glorified point systems connected to those few (50 or so?), it would
 BF>> be a piece of cake to create a true, complete mesh of fidonet nodes.

 DC> I don't even know what to make of his claim of there being only 50
 DC> working BBS's in the nodelist.  Is he saying that unless you're a *C,
 DC> you're not a real BBS?

 DD> I think he is suggesting that unless a "system" has users other
 DD> than the "sysop" then it shouldn't be nodelisted.

Ahhh, that could be it.  Pretty hard to put into practice though, 
and the number of users is a moving target.

 DD> Having a *C badge is not required.

 DD> There are no other users availing themselves of my "system" -
 DD> although I do have a *C badge. Should my system only be a point
 DD> and not a "full nodelisted" node?

Of course not.  I don't have many users either, but that's the way 
of the world nowadays.



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