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Hello, Gleb Hlebov.
On 19.04.2024 21:58 you wrote:
GH> Hi All, Hедавно вроде бы обсуждали разные аспекты Фидонета в
z1(3) и z2, и почему в z1 почти
GH> нет пойнтов, а в z2 пойнты измерялись тысячами. Грубо говоря
-- потому, что: - настраивать
GH> пойнт-софт -- "слишком сложно" технически; - местные звонки всё
равно бесплатные, можно и на
GH> ББС повисеть и почитать. Любопытный фрагмент из ихней википидии:
GH>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet#Points ======== As the number
of messages in Echomail
GH> grew over time, it became very difficult for users to keep
up with the volume while logged
GH> into their local BBS. Points were introduced to address this,
allowing technically-savvy users
GH> to receive the already compressed and batched Echomail (and
Netmail) and read it locally on
GH> their own machines. To do this, the FidoNet addressing scheme
was extended with the addition
GH> of a final address segment, the point number. For instance, a
user on the example system above
GH> might be given point number 10, and thus could be sent mail
at the address 1:170/918.10. In
GH> real-world use, points are fairly difficult to set up. The
FidoNet software typically
GH> consisted of a number of small utility programs run by
manually edited scripts that required
GH> some level of technical ability. Reading and editing the mail
required either a "sysop editor"
GH> program or a BBS program to be run locally. In North America
(Zone 1), where local calls are
GH> generally free, the benefits of the system were offset by its
complexity. Points were used
GH> only briefly, and even then only to a limited degree.
Dedicated offline mail reader programs
GH> such as Blue Wave, Squiggy and Silver Xpress (OPX) were
introduced in the mid-1990s and
GH> quickly rendered the point system obsolete. Many of these
packages supported the QWK offline
GH> mail standard. In other parts of the world, especially Europe,
this was different. In Europe,
GH> even local calls are generally metered, so there was a strong
incentive to keep the duration
GH> of the calls as short as possible. Point software employs
standard compression (ZIP, ARJ,
GH> etc.) and so keeps the calls down to a few minutes a day
at most. In contrast to North
GH> America, pointing saw rapid and fairly widespread uptake in
Europe. ======== То есть, вместо
GH> удобного автоматизированного пойнт-пакета предпочли сами звонить
на ББС и читать Блювавой,
GH> тогда как в r50, как правило, происходило ровно обратное? Hу, ок.
Лишнее подтверждение "нутупые"? ;)
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