I wanted to ask, since I tried to
on my end, but for some reason I
can't dial in to TQW over telnet
or SSH.
Hey all, been a hot bit since I checked in on you guys. Good to see
there's still familiar faces around.
I wanted to ask, since I tried to on my end, but for some reason I
can't dial in to TQW over telnet or SSH.
Nigel Reed wrote to Nodoka Hanamura <=-
The tqw network is still up and running. I see the domain has gone so whether that means hubs are not talking to each other, I dunno. I
dropped Bill a message via QWK so we'll see if he answers, I guess.
Hey all, been a hot bit since I checked in on you guys. Good to see there's still familiar faces around.
Hey all, been a hot bit since I checked in on you guys. Good to see there's still familiar faces around.
That's too bad. Araknet had one hub go down and each of the other hubs
sort of limped along for a while. I'd almost prefer a less resilient
network, that, when it went down, you knew it. :(
Nigel Reed wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I'm sort of feeling like that too. Though the problem with having a
master hub that everything is routed through is you end up with a fractured network of little clusters. It's like the Sixth Sense. They
are dead but they don't know they're dead :) --- SBBSecho 3.38-Linux
Some of the people in Fido zone 2 are preaching the FidoWeb, basically having multiple feeds and letting message dupe detection sort things
out. That might work well for an othernet.
I have 3 feeds for Fidonet and let dupe detection work its magic so that's not really a new concept. Been like that for years.--- Nigel Reed Done ---
--- Nigel Reed Said ---
I have 3 feeds for Fidonet and let dupe detection work its--- Nigel Reed Done ---
magic so that's not really a new concept. Been like that for
years.
Meanwhile I can't even find a hub for fidonet for my board :P oh
well.
Meanwhile I can't even find a hub for fidonet for my board :P oh well.
Meanwhile I can't even find a hub for fidonet for my board :P oh well.
Anyone can be a hub for you. What's your location and I can help you find a RC or NC that should be able to assist.--- Nigel Reed Done ---
Let us know how you go.--- Nigel Reed Done ---
Nigel Reed wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Re: Re: Checkking in & TQW?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nigel Reed on Wed Oct 07 2026 07:40:36
Some of the people in Fido zone 2 are preaching the FidoWeb, basically having multiple feeds and letting message dupe detection sort things
out. That might work well for an othernet.
I have 3 feeds for Fidonet and let dupe detection work its magic so
that's not really a new concept. Been like that for years.
esc wrote to Nigel Reed <=-
--- Nigel Reed Said ---
I have 3 feeds for Fidonet and let dupe detection work its magic so that's not really a new concept. Been like that for years.
--- Nigel Reed Done ---
Meanwhile I can't even find a hub for fidonet for my board :P oh well.
Some of the people in Fido zone 2 are preaching the FidoWeb, basically having multiple feeds and letting message dupe detection sort things
out. That might work well for an othernet.
Meanwhile I can't even find a hub for fidonet for my board :P oh well.
Meanwhile I can't even find a hub for fidonet for my board :P oh well.
Where are you looking? Wouldn't Poindexter/Kurt be your NC or RC (California)? I'm not sure which hat he wears, but he would be a great start for you to get a node number in the proper area. Otherwise, who you get your mail from doesn't matter.. so I imagine you're not looking very hard. ;)--- Accession Done ---
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I have 3 feeds for Fidonet and let dupe detection work its magic so that's not really a new concept. Been like that for years.
But it's sloppy and not necessary.
Nigel Reed wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Re: Checkking in & TQW?
By: Gamgee to Nigel Reed on Wed Oct 07 2026 16:09:51
I have 3 feeds for Fidonet and let dupe detection work its magic so that's not really a new concept. Been like that for years.
But it's sloppy and not necessary.
Not really. Not every hub/system carries every group.
Sometimes posts
get dropped. I was having this problem with a couple of echos so I
added a 2nd feed. I'm then also feeding someone else and they feed me
also so that's three.
Sorry, you'll have to deal with it.
esc wrote to Nigel Reed <=-
Meanwhile I can't even find a hub for fidonet for my board :P oh well.
Nigel Reed wrote to esc <=-
Failing that, contact Kurt_Weiske RC for Region 10 at
realitycheckbbs.org and I'm sure he'll point you in the right
direction.
Not really. Not every hub/system carries every group.
Sure, getting echos that your main hub doesn't carry from
somebody else is great. I do that myself. But getting the
SAME echos from multiple places is ... sloppy/lazy/unnecessary.
Yeah, email through my BBS is probably getting marked as SPAM, need to
work on DKIM, DMARC and all of that fun stuff.
Dumas Walker wrote to Gamgee <=-
Sure, getting echos that your main hub doesn't carry from
somebody else is great. I do that myself. But getting the
SAME echos from multiple places is ... sloppy/lazy/unnecessary.
IMHO, what makes it sloppy/lazy but necessary is that the "sloppy/lazy"
is probably not happening on your system but somewhere else in the
chain -- an autopilot system for example. It might be lazier, or more unnecessary, than changing a feed every time you realize that (an)
active echo(es) have suddenly stopped flowing but it works so long as
you are using a modern tosser.
OTOH, there are networks that do not permit this practice and you need
to respect that. But for FIDO, where in recent past we've had RCs just
up and disappear, it it almost necessary if you are a local hub.
All good points and thanks for that input.
Autopilot sysops are the scourge of the hobby, IMHO.
Yeah, emailed him a few times but haven't heard back. :P
Your pipe code from the end of this is screwing with the message body color, can you fix this?--- Exodus Done ---
Odd. He posts here even. Maybe he's seen it already, and I just haven't gotten there yet.--- Accession Done ---
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