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    From Andy Gorman@1:229/426.52 to All on Wed Oct 13 18:45:48 2021
    I was wondering if anyone had any best practices for setting up polling of other systems. Do most setup a schedule for each of the systems or use a batch file and use dbutil? I can see the benfit of using a batch file. Just curious on how the verterans handle this.

    Thx
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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Andy Gorman on Thu Oct 14 09:03:29 2021
    Hi Andy,

    On 2021-10-13 18:45:48, you wrote to All:

    I was wondering if anyone had any best practices for setting up
    polling of other systems. Do most setup a schedule for each of the systems or use a batch file and use dbutil? I can see the benfit of
    using a batch file. Just curious on how the verterans handle this.

    Best practice is not to poll, but deliver available mail directly (both ways)...

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Andy Gorman on Thu Oct 14 11:28:05 2021
    Andy,

    I was wondering if anyone had any best practices for setting up polling
    of other systems.

    Pretty common in the days of PSTN, pretty useless in the days of IP.

    A call costs nothing anymore, so whenever you have something go deliver it. It's the fastest way of moving the Mail around.

    There's a bunch of guys polling here to check if there's mail waiting for them although I explained so many times it's useless as it has already been delivered.

    There's a guy from Germany polling here at least once an hour for the past 20+ years. It's a clear demonstration of not understanding how it works.

    Just curious on how the verterans handle this.

    You're talking to #1 here re: D'bridge ...

    \%/@rd
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  • From Andy Gorman@1:229/426.52 to Ward Dossche on Thu Oct 14 08:26:33 2021
    On 14 Oct 2021, Ward Dossche said the following...
    There's a bunch of guys polling here to check if there's mail waiting
    for them although I explained so many times it's useless as it has
    already been delivered.

    Thanks Ward. For 2 of my networks, FIDO and Metronet, I have to poll to get updates. I'm still kind of getting up to speed on all this again, but I think because I'm a point on FIDO, I have to poll to get messages (maybe not, maybe it's me). For Metronet, I was asked to poll. For MicroNet, it works like you described.

    Thanks for feedback, guys!
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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Andy Gorman on Thu Oct 14 18:09:41 2021
    Hi Andy,

    On 2021-10-14 08:26:33, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

    There's a bunch of guys polling here to check if there's mail waiting
    for them although I explained so many times it's useless as it has
    already been delivered.

    Thanks Ward. For 2 of my networks, FIDO and Metronet, I have to poll to get updates. I'm still kind of getting up to speed on all this again, but I
    think because I'm a point on FIDO, I have to poll to get messages (maybe not, maybe it's me).

    As long as you have a mailer online that is connectable 24/7, it doesn't matter if you are a point or a node, mail can be delivered direct.
    I have a couple of points, that I deliver mail to this way...

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Andy Gorman on Fri Oct 15 00:41:23 2021
    Andy,

    I think because I'm a point on FIDO, I have to poll to get messages

    Correct.

    \%/@rd

    --- DB4 - Oct 12 2021
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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Ward Dossche on Wed Nov 10 03:49:14 2021
    Hello Ward!

    15 Oct 2021 00:41, Ward Dossche wrote to Andy Gorman:

    Andy,

    I think because I'm a point on FIDO, I have to poll to get messages

    Correct.

    only half correct, if point have static ip, it would be possible to dial hotdoged binkd server, so thats no rule on where it works or who do anything anymore, i still love what nikia put in there phones, just sadly windows phones loosed the game to android, i think dbrigde would have worked just fine on such a phone/tablet, not saying android killed that idear :=)

    in my old nokia e51 it could show nice opengl graphic in realtime coded in python for s60

    none remmber anymore today or even learn how to


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

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