Everyone,

With the unfortunate departure of Janis's system, there appears to be the subject of the file distribution... the filebone. I have had several Sysops Netmailing me about this.

I feel this is not my decision to make and would like to open a dialog here
of who should "take this over".

Nick

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Hello Nick!

Thursday December 30 2021 08:26, you wrote to All:

Everyone,

With the unfortunate departure of Janis's system, there appears to be
the subject of the file distribution... the filebone. I have had
several Sysops Netmailing me about this.

I feel this is not my decision to make and would like to open a dialog
here of who should "take this over".

I would be willing to take this on as have been involved in the File distribution network from when US Robotics was involved in contributing modems to help keep the flow going.

How ever I am a little concerned over my age as am now 74 and may be it should be done with a lot younger person who hopefully would be around a lot longer :(.


Vincent

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Hi, Vincent -- on Dec 30 2021 at 14:16, you wrote:

I would be willing to take this on as have been involved in the
File distribution network from when US Robotics was involved in contributing modems to help keep the flow going.

I still have a bunch of those wonderful modems!!

How ever I am a little concerned over my age as am now 74 and may
be it should be done with a lot younger person who hopefully would
be around a lot longer :(.

Well, I'm almost 76 -- so I'm with you! :-)


Cheers... Dallas

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Hi, Nick -- on Dec 30 2021 at 08:26, you wrote:

I feel this is not my decision to make and would like to open a
dialog here of who should "take this over".

FYI, Right now there are 2 of us "Stars" -- myself (Western Star) and Mark Lewis (SouthEast Star @ 3634/12). Carol Shenkenberger has offered to step up (NorthEast Star, perhaps?) and I think it would make sense for Nick to become a star also, since he's already in the echo star business. :-)

For those unaware, the concept is that the stars receive and send to each other without looking at path lines -- if it's a duplicate file, it just gets dumped. That way, we all (3 as it was) have everything the other do and if the chain gets broken it will self-heal. There's no reason I can see to limit ourselves to 3 sites ... redundancy these days is easily handled.

In answer to someone who asked "who will take over the 'FileGate' domain", I'd answer that that was Janis' personal domain and no-one needs to "take it over".


Cheers... Dallas

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On 30 Dec 21 12:51:31, Dallas Hinton said the following to Nick Andre:

FYI, Right now there are 2 of us "Stars" -- myself (Western Star) and Mark Lewis (SouthEast Star @ 3634/12). Carol Shenkenberger has offered to step u (NorthEast Star, perhaps?) and I think it would make sense for Nick to beco a star also, since he's already in the echo star business. :-)

I appear to be more in the "mass dumping ground" business since everything weird or unroutable ends up piling up here.

Nick

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Hi, Nick -- on Dec 30 2021 at 23:45, you wrote:

I appear to be more in the "mass dumping ground" business since
everything weird or unroutable ends up piling up here.

Isn't that in your job description? :-)


Cheers... Dallas

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On 30 Dec 21 22:27:54, Dallas Hinton said the following to Nick Andre:

I appear to be more in the "mass dumping ground" business since everything weird or unroutable ends up piling up here.

Isn't that in your job description? :-)

Lol, that and a couple of other things.

My mom in Victoria was yacking about the flooding situation awhile ago, were you affected by that?

Nick

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Hi, Nick -- on Dec 31 2021 at 02:02, you wrote:

Lol, that and a couple of other things.

:-)

My mom in Victoria was yacking about the flooding situation awhile
ago, were you affected by that?

Fortunately, no. I'm right in town and about 250 Ft above sea level. The Fraser Valley - about an hour's drive East - was terribly damaged.


Cheers... Dallas

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