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Mobile nodes #2
Ward Dossche
2:292/854
After receiving some valid comments from individual people, it needs
to be accepted that the 3 user-flags introduced in my previous article
dealing with the same content, were a case of overkill.
Therefore the user-flags AFS and HDG are cancelled, while MOB will
cover all cases of mobile nodes in the nodelist. It seems developers
of Aftershock and Hotdoged are considering, or are already
implementing, mobile access for incoming calls which would really be
wonderful.
The MOB user-flag will now be described as follows ...
[,MOB] A mobile node running a binkp-implementation from an
undisclosed location
Proposed listing of such nodes is:
,<node-nr>,<system name>,<location>,<sysop>,-Unpublished-,300,U,MOB
Ward Dossche
ZC2
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A returning region, net, sysops and point in Zone-2
Ward Dossche
2:292/854
Naysayers about the mobile user-flags have kicked-up quite a dust
storm after the announcement about facilitating mobile nodes in the
nodelist.
In the rumble of that minor battle however the success story behind
that mobile-node affair is completely shrouded. Let me elaborate ...
It all started on a Facebook-platform with literally hundreds of
former sysops, the majority of them still keen on Fidonet.
Several expressed a desire to return and a mobile platform in my
opinion was the perfect "quick & dirty" tool to kick-start the
process.
Within 48 hrs I had several interested people ... 3 of them desiring
to be a node (2 of them in Belgium, 1 in Romania), 2 settling for
point status (1 in Greece, 1 in Germany).
Setting-up the Aftershock application really takes 90 seconds (and my
apologies Sergey Poziturin for not testing Hotdoged yet). For people
with prior knowledge in echomail, they are literally up and running in
minutes. After the first "Hurrah"-feeling the reality sinks in that
there's only a single-link possibility, no files, no other goodies and
the taste for "more" was quick to enter the minds of some.
As a result we now have the returning node of 2:292/8125
Braindeath BBS back up running InternetRex and experimenting
with FrontDoor, sysop Tom De Puysselaer.
Sysop Petros Argyrakis ex-2:410/9 in Thessaloniki at first was a
point here but within 24hrs decided he wanted to be a node. Then
he decided to revive Region-41 Greece again. One week later we
have a fully fledged Region-41 Greece active again with a Net-410
and 5 node-entries in it for 3 sysops, all systems "up" it seems.
For those interested there is also a node in Romania, now residing
in Region-56, the region for orphaned nodes: 2:530/305 Andrei
Rachita at the moment running a MOB-node and reachable via routed
netmail. He also wants to go beyond a MOB-node.
Further to that ex-2:292/400 Jozef Schildermans has requested his
old number back as well as ex-2:292/865 Luc Sienaert, both soon to
be initially listed as MOB.
To all of the naysayers, I ask "What have you recently done to
further the aim of Fidonet except saying 'Nay'" ?
Oh yes, there's also 2:20/4609 with returning-sysop Joaquim
Homrighausen. His listing looks a bit odd and raises questions
but seems to be technically OK ... except for the nay-sayers ...
they object and say "Nay" ... what else ?
So .... welcome back Jozef, Luc, Tom, Conrad, Andrei, Petros, Nasos
and Christos. Maybe on passing by you could all wave your hands to the
members of the "Noble Chivalric Order Of The Knights That Say Nay"..
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