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echo: fidonews
to: BJRN FELTEN
from: TOMMI KOIVULA
date: 2019-11-29 07:14:00
subject: Why set up an FTN server

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Hello, Björn Felten.
On 29/11/2019 2.14 you wrote:

 BF>>> Mainly because they do not have a computer that's running a server
 BF>>> 24/7.
 TK>> It is only needed to be able to receive mail during the ZMH, not 24/7.
 TK>> But I think you knew that.
 BF>     And I'm sure that you appreciate what it would mean to set your alarm
 BF> clock to wake you up before a Scandinavian ZMH just to start that server
 BF> for just an hour every day, 7/365  -- five weeks of Scandinavian
 BF> vacation trips included. :)

Some computers can wake up automatically. And go to sleep also. ;)

 BF>     As opposed to checking your Thunderbird mail when you feel like it, I
 BF> mean...

Yes. As I have wondered before, why everyone should get a nodenumber to join
discussion in fidonet...


 BF> .

--
 Tommi

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