On 2019 Jun 26 11:55:24, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:
"Private listings impact each member of FidoNet, since they take up
space in everyone's nodelist. Private listings which are for the
convenience of one sysop (at the expense of every other sysop in
FidoNet) are a luxury which is no longer possible."
When that was written we had to "trim" the nodelist to "less than 1000 entries" and pay to move the nodelist.
interestingly enough, P1, P2, and P3 do not use the word "private" in them... all three policy documents do have an example nodelist using "Pvt" for private systems, though... this example nodelist is used as an example proposed nodelist for when a net or region proposes to split into a smaller unit...
Today the size is not an issue, most of us are not paying anything to
move it.
at least not outside the existing cost of maintaining an internet connection...
Nowadays it seems to be, and has been, quite possible in certain
parts of Fidonet for a long time...
Since "ION" became popular...
they've been used for longer than IONs have been around... my 1:3634/12 address was listed as a Pvt system when i moved to R18... i was a well known participant in several software support echos and generated quite a bit of traffic* with the support messages i posted... i could have been a point, sure, but there were no fidonet systems in my area...
it took several months before i was able to even get a response from a NC and then it wasn't from the NC that it should have been from... basically, i'm in the boonies... i applied to the raleigh net because they were an extended local call to me... never heard a peep from that guy... i decided to apply to the fayetteville net and see what happened... if that fell through, the greensboro net was the next target...
i got a response from the fayetteville NC within a day or two... i explained my situation to the NC and that i'd be making all the calls to deliver and pick up my mail... he didn't have any problem listing me as a Pvt node and the rest is history... i'm now the NC of that net and that net covers the entire state of north carolina...
* some days i might have written 100+ responses to support message requests... that after an 8+ hour day at $job... after a new version of the software was released, there were days when i'd write easily double that number of messages... i was damned good at what i did... most all my messages provided the page numbers and which paragraphs needed to solve the problem described... that freely given support and attention to detail garnered me requests to join the beta teams for those products... i'm not as fast as i once was and i don't drink near the c0ffee that i did back then either ;)
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* Origin: (1:3634/12.73)