X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: "Mike Tripp" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Networks Message-ID: Date: Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004 07:42:24 -500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) In-Reply-To: X-Fido-From: Mike Tripp, 1:382/61 X-Fido-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IgLou-Customer: verified X-Originating-IP: 204.255.236.230 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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