> The SDS-flag is going to dropped from the nodelist list of flags > handled by ERRFLAGS.
> "Software Distribution System" and there's only 1 node carrying it, > Vince Coen.
> Vince and I talked about it and he doesn't even exactly remember why > it's there, the flag was inserted in 1999 after it was mentioned in > FTS=5001 but nowhere is it discussed or described.
> There apparently also used to be an SDS-net, but that seems to be as > dead as a dead monkey itself.
SDS Net was which incorporates a large number of file areas was serviced by the FileGate facility via Janis and the large number of hubs around the world myself included over the last 20 plus years.
Traffic in SDS Net seems to have died over the last few years - possible lack of interest by programmers for the various applications as old platform were replaced with more modern versions i.e., Windows 95,8,NT,XP etc and software was not able to keep up with say X64 bit processing platforms as against the very old 16 and 32 bit ones - only guessing though.
Vincent
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