Subj : FidoNet Nodelist Database
To   : Karel Kral
From : Dmitry Protasoff
Date : Fri Aug 01 2025 16:52:37

Hello, Karel!

Friday August 01 2025 15:24, you wrote to me:

 DP>> I know that a large number of nodes and points don't even use a
 DP>> fresh nodelist, because there's no easy way to update it
 DP>> automatically.

 KK> To be able handle nodelist proces was the minimum of the fidonet
 KK> membership.

It's very difficult to fight against people's laziness.

 KK> Slightly disagree. Few years ago there were (illegal which actual
 KK> cases confirms) tries to block some web pages/domains/ip addresses.
 KK> But you can still use IAX, put there some modem and call. Either ISDN
 KK> is (was?) still available to get.

What about IAX filtering? Very easy with DPI.

 KK> In 2002, big .cz flooding -> several datacentres were down. But
 KK> fidonet members could communicate as phonelines were working.

In some places in Russia during the 90s the state telco was blocking modem calls using frequency filtering devices to force people to pay extra.

Now they can simply block all modem calls by changing the voice codec. My modem uplink suddenly lost the ability to connect with any protocol except HST due to a configuration error at local exchange and it took them months to fix it.

Best regards,
             dp.

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