Is FTN "stuck" in supporting the lowest common denominator?
Can some aspects established in the 80's be depricated and abandoned by
now?
Can FTN be transformed by taking advantage of things like CockroachDB?
Post YOUR questions, thoughts and ideas.
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There is chatter in FSX_NET about using technologies like CockroachDB and torrents for distributing files and messages. That reminds me when some systems offered to distribute Fidonet echomail via scheduled satellite downlinks *before* the internet transport mechanism really took off.
The internet has effectively depricated the need for dialup which FTN was originally based upon. The nodelist still has a placeholder for a
phonenumber that is only configured for a handful of systems. When is it
time to abandon that field for something else?
Can FTN embrace newer technologies for exchanging mail?