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   -=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Nick Boel <=-   
      
    NB> I think at this point applications are accepted as long as applicants   
    NB> can make a binkp connection, and send a netmail.   
      
    MvV> Yes that seems to be the case. But once they are accepted, they are   
    MvV> seldom checked again. If checked, only for a responding server, not for   
    MvV> responding to netmail. So we have many ghost systems in the nodelist...   
      
   I'd say that is the fault of the NC.  There are no dead nodes in my Net.   
      
    MvV> Still... As I mentioned before, when promoting IPv6 in Fidonet I   
    MvV> sometimes run into a brick wall. The first brick wall is that of   
    MvV> denial. No, denial is not a river in Egypt. (Roy Witt) IPv6 is a hype,   
    MvV> there is noo need for it, IPv4 is functioning well and will remain to   
    MvV> do so, if not for the rest of the century, then at least for the coming   
    MvV> decades.   
      
   Is there anything in the above paragraph that isn't true?   
      
   That's correct, it's all true and factual.   
      
    MvV> IPv4 exhaustion may not be a serious problem for the incumbents in   
    MvV> parts of the world where IPv4 was historically issued as if it would   
    MvV> last forever. But for newcomers getting enough IPv4 to give all their   
    MvV> potential customers a globally routable IPv4 address is a serious   
    MvV> problem. So serious that some of the newcomers in the fast gowing fibre   
    MvV> glass sector here in Europe have stopped doing it.   
      
   So..... here you are talking about "newcomer" ISP's?  That doesn't have    
   anything to do with individuals or FidoNet sysops.  Are you trying to    
   base your whole argument on the problems faced by a "new ISP company"?     
   I mean, how many of those are there....?  Nothing to do with FidoNet.   
      
      
      
   ... So easy, a child could do it. Child sold separately.   
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