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Hi mark,

On 2020-02-21 09:48:05, you wrote to me:

And btw a Pvt node can't be a RIN.

why not? there's plenty of room for the Pvt flag at the beginning of the nodelist entry... a completely empty field, in fact...

P4 Had good reasons to not allow it... Maybe those reasons are no longer valid. But there is no P5...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Re: Re: vinyl resting place
By: Wilfred van Velzen to mark lewis on Fri Feb 21 2020 16:54:39

And btw a Pvt node can't be a RIN.

why not? there's plenty of room for the Pvt flag at the beginning of the nodelist entry... a completely empty field, in fact...

P4 Had good reasons to not allow it... Maybe those reasons are no longer

valid.

so your statement was a fidonet political statement then? there's no technical reason they cannot exist...

But there is no P5...

true... or at least a P4.08 ;)


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Hello mark,

On Friday February 21 2020 12:12, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

And btw a Pvt node can't be a RIN.

[..]

so your statement was a fidonet political statement then? there's no technical reason they cannot exist...

So tell me... - in this day and age when "convenient calling" is no longer limited to a relatively small geographic area - what is the TECHNICAL reason for having RINs or ZINs in the first place? What is the technical reason these nodes can not be accomodated in a normal net?


Cheers, Michiel

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