Subj : An actual useful thing
To   : andrew clarke
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Mon Dec 21 2020 07:07 pm

Good ${greeting_time}, andrew!

21 Dec 2020 23:53:52, you wrote to All:

 ac>> This is just creating busywork for the handful of developers left
 ac>> (eg. me, occasionally) and new bugs for no benefit.
 ac> Maybe it's too late, but if you want to actually create something
 ac> useful (and long overdue), come up with some ideas of transparently
 ac> detecting and overcoming mail delivery failures in FidoNet.
 ac> In the 25+ years I've been using FTN software this has become my
 ac> biggest gripe. The software has no way of detecting that a node has
 ac> gone down and automatically routing around the problem.

Ughm... here in R50 we had this almost solved many years ago, and the key software for it is available at https://github.com/huskyproject/fidoroute


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