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|    ATREYU to Ozz Nixon    |
|    Re: Inspired by Nodelrpt.com v1.04 by K.    |
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      On 23 Jul 18 19:33:11, Ozz Nixon said the following to All:              ON> Region: 12 (ON PQ NB PE NS NF)       ON>        ON> 229 249       ON> Region has 2 networks, 0 hubs and 22 nodes.              It may be a good idea to scrap the "Hub" part of your report or at least make        it an option in whatever this program is that you wrote.              I emailed you before about this. Hubs, the NAB, "Star systems", are by and       large obsolete and of little importance or relevance technically and        politically in 2018 where almost everyone is using an Internet mailer and/or       peering with other systems.              At one time, the Hub field was used by certain mailers, such as D'Bridge and        possibly Frontdoor to indicate a system to host-route Netmail destined for a        Private entry - One with Pvt/Unpublished. This is also known as "Host-routing        privates".              For example:              1:229/800 - Hub       1:229/801 - Normal       1:229/802 - Pvt/Unpublished       1:229/900 - Hub       1:229/901 - Normal       1:229/902 - Normal       1:229/903 - Normal       1:229/904 - Pvt/Unpublished       1:229/905 - Hub       1:229/906 - Pvt/Unpublished              Say 1:249/1 writes Netmail to 229/802, 904 and 906. The delivery order if        there was no route and the mailer was configured to host-route privates, would       be 229/800, 900 and 905.              Thats not to say Host-route-Privates is not used at all anymore, but by and       large its not as my understanding is that many Sysops will crash Pvt-destined       Netmail through the NC of the destination-network.              Nick              --- Renegade vY2Ka2        * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)    |
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