On Nov 25, 2019 03:21pm, Alan Ianson wrote to Bradley Thornton:

Hello Alan,

 AI> The fidoweb in short, is connecting with multiple links for the same
 AI> area to be sure you get all messages even if your "uplink" fails to
 AI> deliver for some reason.

That's the way I saw it also, it's like having X uplinks to ensure you get
most echos messages but it's still not 100%. If everyone sets ups crash for
echomail then it's almost like instant messaging or email which is nice. Only
other advantage is a node didn't need to depend on his uplink configuring pass
through for echos they wanted but not carried by their uplink.

This was only possible due to using cheap internet connections and good dupe
detection. Really only required if some sysops were blocking which may have
happened.

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