On Thursday, September 5th, 2024 at 10:20, Mark Taylor <mtaylor@...> wrote:
The big question I have is why are you using BPQ to retrieve winlink messages? Are they for yourself or for your users?? No offense towards John but I don't see any benefit in allowing BPQ to collect winlink messages. Really just curious.
To me it's a network efficiency thing; it's one-stop shopping. A user can send a single message to multiple addressees, both packet and Winlink, and my BBS has multiple paths for a Winlink message to take to get the message(s) out. This means that a failed path for Winlink delivery doesn't affect the user (e.g. the user doesn't have to waste time trying different paths), the BBS will try all the paths for the user. And the user doesn't have to poll multiple connections for messages, my BBS can push any pending messages to the user, thus freeing up network time for other data.
73,
Eric WG3K
