Subj : New results. Much better but still not perfect.
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Dmitry Protasoff
Date : Thu Aug 07 2025 12:54 am

Hello, Michiel!

Wednesday August 06 2025 22:06, you wrote to me:

 DP>> Overall, the situation with connectivity is pretty bad.

 MV> In the POTS age it probably wasn't much better. Maybe it was even
 MV> worse. In the POTS age it was not doable to test every node in the
 MV> nodelist for connectivity. For starters, it would have cost a fortune.
 MV> It would also have taken much too long. A full scan would have taken
 MV> over a week.

I have a plan to actualy DIAL (!) every node in the nodelist ;) It's not very 
expensive and probably many POTS nodes are dead anyway (?).
In Russia, we've got a really nice guy, 2:5020/8912, with a multiline POTS node 
who is dialing every node with a modem in Russia to check if they're still 
alive :)

 MV> Nowadays it is a matter of minutes and the cost is zero. Scanning the
 MV> nodelist every day is no problem. It is no longer possible to hide
 MV> connectivity issues.

This test will be integrated into my server software, but right now, it's just 
a mess of python code, too terrible to share :(
After that, I'll write an article for Fidonews ;)

I'm doing night shifts with our baby girl 3 nights a week because she's going 
through a sleep regression right now. While I'm not ready for any serious work 
after 10pm,
my brain still has enough resources to write some simple code and AI is ready 
to help with things I'm too lazy to study myself ;)

Best regards,
             dp.

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