BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (093)
De:       Wilfred van Velzen
Data:     Tue, 7 Apr 2026 11:51:28 +0200
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Hi Michiel,

On 2026-04-07 11:44:54, you wrote to me:

 WV>> I don't think IPv4 will ever die completely, at least not in the
 WV>> foreseeable future.

 MvdV> "Foreseeable future" is a tricky concept in these days where history may
 MvdV> change by the day.

 MvdV> Strange as it may seem, it also depends on what you consider "dead". Indeed
 MvdV> IPv4 may never die in the sense that it will be not be used at all any more.
 MvdV> But I think we may see the day that an IPv4 only system will be less usefull
 MvdV> and so IPv6 will becomse a must. A reversal of what we see today where an IPv6
 MvdV> only system is still less usefull than an IPv4 only system. After that
 MvdV> reversal we may relatively soon get a situation where having IPv4 will have
 MvdV> little or no added value any more and some manufacturers will stop supporting
 MvdV> it for new products.. That may be the day when IPv45 is "dead".

I'm not going to hold my breath for this to happen! ;-)

 MvdV> It will not be relevant for Fmail. IPv4 vs IPv6 should not be
 MvdV> relevant for a tosser and the fossile SMTP function in Fmail is the
 MvdV> only place where it is relevant. Since that function isn't all that
 MvdV> usefull anyway, the fact that it will not be usable at all after the
 MvdV> death of IPv4 is academic.

Indeed.

 MvdV>>> But... if it could sort on UTC instead of sender's local time
 MvdV>>> it might be useful...

 WV>> I'll put it on my list. I already did a similar thing in another piece
 WV>> of software (python script). I even made a Net to TZ table for
 WV>> messages that don't have a TZUTC kludge. So atleast an educated guess
 WV>> for the correct TZ could be made.

 MvdV> Aha. GMTA. You are ahaed of me. I was anticipating the question of "what about
 MvdV> messages without a TZUTC kludge?" My answer would have been: "make a best
 MvdV> guess based on Fidonet geography by node number. But you are alread there.
 MvdV> Even to the net level. ;-)

Or it might be on a Region level. I don't remember exactly.

Btw: This should be an external config file, because Net structure might change more often then FMail releases...


Bye, Wilfred.

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