> Janis Kracht wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:


>> He'll get it from here, don't worry.. I checked and he's defintely
>> in list to get the file here.  If he'd like to get it from Dallas,
>> that's no problem of course.

> I kinda figgered he did....naybe you could 'splain how the file distribtution
> system works....(see, you jumloed in and now you have extra work).

Lol.. ok, no problem.

The filegate uses the shortest path between the guy that hatches and the
main fidonet backbone.. so files come in here from the guy that hatches,
and my system then sends them to numerous downlinks and the other two
Backbone stars (Ross and Bob).

We only let one node hatch; in other words on my system only one node will
have hatching privileges in each file echo.  In this case the one who is
set to hatch is Dallas.

Everyone else in the config for that file echo is set to receive  the file.
That way, if someone down the line misconfigures his system, my system
won't
'burp' back another release of the file 

An exception to the "one node hatch" rule is if an area is a
backchannel area. A backchannel area is one that receives files from anyone
in fidonet, but only sends those files to one node, who is the FDN
Coordinator. He can then decide if he wants to hatch the file or not. 
You'll see backchannel areas listed in filegate.zxx with names like
FILES2HQ, etc.

Hope that helps.

Take care,
Janis

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