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From:	"Mike Tripp" <ccoky AT iglou DOT com>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Networks
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Date:	Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004 07:42:24 -500
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Originally to: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Hello opendos AT delorie DOT com!

20 Jan 04 09:44, Gary Welles wrote to OpenDos:

 GW> With the nodelist being all telephone numbers, if FidoNet is part
 GW> of a network, it's the telephone network.

I am the host of my network and the only member with a phone number in my 
nodelisting (alongside my IP information).  The rest of my network accesses Fido 
via the Internet using analog modem, cable modem, or DSL. Some are "always on" 
and can accept a connection from me whenever I initiate it.  Others use 
temporary connections and must initiate a connection with me (and/or other Fido 
nodes) to pick up what is held for them.  In =no= case, are modem-to-modem 
connections using only Fidonet protocols made between myself and the members of 
my own network.

 GW>     "FidoNet is a point-to-point and store-and-forward email WAN
 GW>     which uses modems on the direct-dial telephone network."

Substitute "The Internet" for "FidoNet" in the statement above and it is equally 
accurate/inaccurate.  Personal messaging ("email") is just one of many services 
available from both networks.  Accessing the telephone network with an analog 
modem device is just one of multiple methods of making a connection to a 
physical layer that is common to both networks.

> PATH: 2320/105 261/38 123/500 106/2000 140/1 382/61

This is the sequence of Fidonet nodes by which your message reached my system. 
Of the six addresses listed, only the first two do =not= publish IP information 
in their nodelist entry for the given address.  The sysop of the 2nd system also 
has alternate AKA addresses which do.

.\\ike

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