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to: mark lewis
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2012-03-21 10:57:40
subject: Win Version was: Bug report

Hello mark,

On Monday March 19 2012 14:34, you wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> Not sure what binkp.net is...but:

 ml> binkp.net is what was quickly put in place to replace fidonet.net when
 ml> its domain registration expired and the owner couldn't get in to pay
 ml> up the subscription... loosing fidonet.net would have really hurt
 ml> fidonet's internet side operations...

One of the reasons I never embraced f5555.n280.z2.fidonet.net is that it
depends on one person. Fidonet is not a legal entity, so the domain must be
registered by a private person. If that person dies, looses interest or
leaves Fidonet with slamming doors, there is a problem.

Shifting to binkp.net is no good for those with legacy software that is not
configurable. Plus that the basic problem - dependency on one person -
remains.

To my surprise I find that f5555.n280.z2.binkp.net exists. I never asked
for that, I can only assume someone scanned the nodelist and derived a zone
file for binkp.net from it. Makes me wonder why. The added value is zero as
all the information is already in the nodelist.


Cheers, Michiel

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