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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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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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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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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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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Andy,

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

Correct.

\%/@rd

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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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