Janis Kracht wrote to Roy Witt about HotdogED Device Compatibility List
#7:

 >>>> But I wasn't aware that she issued any points

 >>> I've always had some points.. some people have been points over here
 >>> for years.

 >> Just never heard of or from...

 JK> Benny and Gert are points here.. then I have some that are from
 JK> Russia, and also some that are not sysops (two that I can think of
 JK> from Zone 2).  They just didn't want to be node.. I can understand
 JK> different tastes in this stuff.

It means that everything they subscribe to doesn't take them away from
their other life. Their bossnode will have it all on hold.

 >>>>> if node version of hotdoged comes it would still be nice, but its
 >>>>> low powered node then that still not handle tic files, well it
 >>>>> still in progress, but i think point needs is smaller then node
 >>>>> needs

 >>>> I think points are exclusive to Z2 because the still high POTS
 >>>> calling rates.

 >>> I know of a couple other systems off-hand in Z1 who also have points.
 >>> We probably don't have enough of them to make a zone point list, but
 >>> they're "out there" 

 >> Of course. I use 387/22.1 when I'm traveling or on one of my laptops.
 >> But you're right about not having enough points to make a zone points
 >> list, or for that matter a region points list. There used to be a day
 >> when each net would have it's own point list, but no more.

 JK> Yes, way back I think...

I was aware of the net202 point list back as far as 1991. I also remember
the same point list being distributed to everyone who was a node in that
net. I didn't ever process those point files, but I did read them every
now and then. The trend in 1995 was less and less points in that list.



         R\%/itt



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