On 2022 Feb 28 13:23:52, you wrote to me:
ml>> one's hub/feed can be anywhere... it is not required to feed from any
ml>> system in one's net... never was, either... much to the anguish of
ml>> many *Cs/*ECs back in the day... Planet Connect proved that ;)
gr> Hah! I totally forgot about Planet Connect until you mentioned it.
many have forgotten about it...
gr> I used to want one of those connections so badly! :)
i thought about it at one point but never jumped...
gr> Did it actually work well?
from what i saw of it, yes... they exported to an address that everyone had to
use and the stream was quite continuous at the time... as the files arrived,
your system just tossed them as normal... traffic back to PC went by standard
landline, as i recall... you could tell when your system's posts made it out
because they would come back to you via the satellite feed...
my only real experience with it was when helping another operator with their
WWIV setup trying to toss it all back then... at that time, the FTN<->WWIV
tossing was a two pass thing... the first pass with a FTN tosser to MSG format
followed by the WWIV tosser going from MSG to WWIV's internal format... i was
called in to assess why the MSG files were not being tossed into WWIV... in
this case, it was because the WWIV MSG tosser was being too strict and looking
for terminating null characters that didn't exist... so i whipped up a quick
tool that appended the needed null characters to all MSG files between the FTN
tosser's run and the WWIV tosser's run... that fixed the problem of inbound...
outbound worked the opposite way... WWIV to MSG and then FTN tosser to package
from there to linked systems... my tool was not needed at this stage since the
FTN tosser wasn't as strict...
it all worked well enough for the time period... i don't recall what happened
with that system, though... it just wasn't there one day... i suspect the
operator and his family moved as i've never heard from them since and the few
times i was in the area and thought to stop by their place, there was no
vehicles in the yard so i just kept going...
)\/(ark
"The soul of a small kitten in the body of a mighty dragon. Look on my majesty,
ye mighty, and despair! Or bring me catnip. Your choice. Oooh, a shiny thing!"
... Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side and don't be stingy, baby.
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