15 Mar 15 16:05, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 KR> Fidonet needs reliability or more users will leave.

In terms of reliability alone as far as I'm concerned the biggest threat to
FidoNet has always been the issue of upstream netmail/echomail nodes going
down permanently without warning. Reconfiguring your netmail and echomail
links when communicating with a new node can be a pain in the arse,
especially if you're connected to multiple systems. And that's after you
mess around establishing communication with a new node (often a complete
stranger who may only read their netmail once a week), exchanging
passwords, etc.

It can be days (if not weeks) before you're reconnected to the echos you
were connected to previously, and that's if you can find a reliable system
that has all the echos you want. And that's only after you've noticed your
upstream mail provider has gone down, then waited a few days for it to come
back online (only for it to just disappear forever).

Currently I get the bulk of my echomail from two other zone 3 nodes. In the
past it was more like five or six, some in zone 1. Each time a node has
gone offline I've had to reconfigure my echos, and I cringe whenever I do
it. I suspect I'll be leaving Fido once both of those upstream links have
gone permanently offline, because I'm really over the idea of having to
reestablish comms each time.

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