On 2019 Mar 22 21:18:34, you wrote to David Drummond:

 DC>>> or come up with better technology for conference distribution.

 DD>> The Europeans have already come up with a better technology for
 DD>> conference distribution - have you looked at that model?

 DC> Is it called HTTP, RSS, or Atom?

no... those are not fidonet protocols used to package and/or transfer mail from
one FTN system to another...

 DC> Let me guess: it still relies on zones, regions, nets, and
 DC> all the rest of that antiquated nonsense?

nope... it embraces the fact that systems may pull their echomail from any
other system(s) they desire... the key factor is having multiple links to the
same area... it embraces the use of duplicates to ensure that messages arrive
even if one node goes down for some reason...

fidonet used to detect and take steps to break "dupe loops" because of cost...
now, instead of cost being the limiting factor, a system's ability to handle
possibly large numbers of dupes is the limiting factor... especially if a
system puts those dupes into a special area for the operator to look over and
determine why a message was classified by their system as a duplicate... this
is/was how faulty duplicate detection routines were discovered, reported and
corrected...

some systems these days just throw dupes into the bitbucket even if they are
not truly duplicates... an example of that would be echo rules posted to an
echo... rules that didn't change in message body even though the header was
different and the path/seenbys were also different... in many cases, the only
difference was the date of the post and the MSGID if one was used in the
post...

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