On 2018 Mar 17 02:00:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    TK>>>> Looks pretty fast. :D   
    BF>>> Thanks to the FidoWeb yes, but still not the most efficient path   
    BF>>> from within R20.   
    ml>> there is no provision in anything FTN for figuring out and following   
    ml>> the fastest path from one system to another   
      
    AV> Most of the Fidonet doesn't need that.   
      
   exactly why i pointed it out... especially when some try to use it as an   
   argument for using one distribution model over another ;)   
      
    ml>> so there's no way to figure any sort of ""efficient path"" from   
    ml>> anywhere to anywhere else...   
      
    AV> There is at least one quite similar to OSPF, but documenting it would   
    AV> take a whole eternity - first translate the "brief" description from   
    AV> Russian, after that write an FSP... just for 10...20 more nodes to   
    AV> have a bit faster netmail delivery?   
      
   we're talking about echomail, though... but yes, it isn't worth it to try to do   
    anything to figure it out... documenting not withstanding... it would require   
   non-mail traffic and a lot of probing of mailers and tossers to somehow pull   
   routing information that can be consolidated into some sort of a map... that   
   was painful back in the day when it was done and many refused to provide such   
   mappings because it is none of anyone else's business where one's mailer(s)   
   connect for mail transfers...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it   
   wrong...   
   ... We can defeat gravity, the problem is the paperwork involved.   
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