Tuesday September 20 2016 09:27, you wrote to All:

 rc> 1) Polling of NC/hub???

 rc>  What kind of cron job have others setup/use for this???? Since in my
 rc> FD days I had "metro" service the local calls to my hub/NC were "FREE"
 rc> so I polled often to get echomail, and routed netmail etc...

My binkd is daemonized so it is always listening and watching to outbound to
see if anything needs to be sent. In my cron setup I just touch the .flo file
for nodes I want to poll. Here's a look at one of my crontab lines..

03 */1 * * * touch /usr/local/fido/outbound/00991e23.flo

That entry touchs the .flo file to poll my NC at 3 minutes after the hour every
hour. Actually that entry is commented out because my NC and I poll each other
many times a day and it's not needed but that's how it can be done.

 rc> 2) TIC processing???

 rc> I am leaning towards tinyTic as its related to JAMnntpd and
 rc> crashmail..

Tinytic is good at what it does but does not send files and tics to other nodes
so if you want to do that you'll need something else.

 rc> others? Setup?

Htick will do everything you need to do with tics. It will require that you
take the time to do the setup but it will do what you want it to do.

 rc> 3) Since Binkd needs to have external help for FREQ's what are others
 rc> using???? Setup?

 rc> FD dealt with all that mostly.....some of the stuff I was gating
 rc> in/out via UUCP at the time with GIGO did some things externally...

I am in the midst of setting up mfreq. It also requires some setup but I think
it is well worth it.

There is also FREQ-U that is a more simple freq setup much like FD used back in
the day, and maybe some still use today.

Both of those are freqable from the authors or I can plonk what I have here in
your inbound for you to look over.

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