[HECnet] Area 48.....

[Steve Davidson]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE 
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 14:44
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Area 48.....

On 1/7/2013 2:41 PM, Steve Davidson wrote:
This was referred to as PMR (Poor Mans Routing).   The 
concept was not 
new because it had been used in previous versions of DECnet anyway, 
the application was... Sort of...   HECnet has reserved area 63 for 
hidden area nodes - to play with mostly.   I did some 
playing around last year.
If I can ever find my notes (from DEC days) about the whole setup I 
will get back to playing some more with it.

This sounds like it was a bad idea back then and a bad idea now. :)

-brian


Actually,   it worked quite well!   In my group most people that had
hidden area nodes also had accounts on non-hidden area clusters so most
of their email was fine.   In fact,   cluster aliases had to be non-hidden
so it all just worked out.

I remember using "mail", "phone", and "notes" without issues.

-Steve