On 2019 Jun 26 02:38:22, you wrote to me:

 ml>> you never heard of a private BBS? are you trying to tell dale how to
 ml>> run his system? can we all start telling you how to run your system??

 BF> No need to. Since we are gradually discarding parts of P4 we might as
 BF> well discard of the entire 2.1.9 of P4 in one big swipe.

kinda, yeah...

 BF> "Private listings impact each member of FidoNet, since they take up
 BF> space in everyone's nodelist.  Private listings which are for the
 BF> convenience of one sysop (at the expense of every other sysop in
 BF> FidoNet) are a luxury which is no longer possible."

yeah, that part is definitely not applicable these days... especially since 1TB 
drives are damned near cheaper than pizza dinner...

 BF> Nowadays it seems to be, and has been, quite possible in certain parts
 BF> of Fidonet for a long time...

i dunno... i do know that dale's system has been listed in the same way since 
it was first added to the nodelist 21+ years ago...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it 
wrong...
... Life is one weird tub of guacamole and I am all out of chips.
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