RE: New node questions

["Philip Maley" <phil@wotech.com.au>]

Hi Rodolfo

I operate vk6dlx and vk6bbs here in Perth Australia.

I am using linuxnode 0.3.2 on vk6dlx and 0.2.4 on vk6bbs.
Both node programs listen for connections on ssid 1.
Looking through the node list on vk6dlx, I cannot see any evidence of a
standard for the ssid.
I have not tried awznode.
On vk6dlx I just use "vk6dlx" as the mnemonic. It's been like that for
years and nobody has commented so it must be ok. I never have seen
anything written on use of the "#" prefix that a few stations use.
I use -7 in nrports. I don't remeber why - I probably copied the one in
the example files that came with the software.
I don't run a convers daemon. I have a shortcut set up in node.conf so
that when a user enters "conv" it telnets to another convers server on
somebody else's system. The user gets the same service without me having
to maintain another software package. I do the same thing for a dx
cluster service.
Digipeater: I am using Craig Small's "axdigi" which is very old but
still does the job and can still be found on the net.
I have been running FBB for more than 10 years and it works fine with
DOS systems.
There is always lots of room for improvement but it works.

Good luck.
Phil vk6ad