As you now, corona enabled me to relaunch region 2:30 (switzerland) some time ago. Corona is still there, so are we. Fidonet is still not a hype in switzerland, but we have some fine folks here having fun with their tools and systems.
One of them is Alisha Manuela Stutz, who i know for many years. She is very active in the retro computer scene, runs her own mailbox and helps others improving their systems and mailboxes. She joined fidonet after the relauch here in switzerland and is operating some othernets as well. For most of them, she runs the swiss distribution systems which i like to call "backbone" in my stoneage-like way to see it.
Alisha is operating three systems aleady and thinks about expanding fidonet to cyprus later on. As travel restrictions prevent installing her hardware, this project has to be queued a bit, but i'm quite certain that she will proceed with that.
As Alisha is able to spend more time for fidonet (even as she's not retired like i am), it's a very logical consequence that she will take over some work from me. Furthermore, her software is a bit more en vogue than mine.
Therefore, we announce the transition of "the swiss backbone" 2:301/1 from my system to a new system maintained by Alisha.
We do this in two steps:
Step 1: The DNS entry pointing to 2:301/1 will be changed to Alisha's system by the end of next week. With that, we want to make sure all connects go to her system, even from people who don't use an updated nodelist The new DNS entry was entered in the nodelist last year, so everyone should have it in the nodelist by now. Step 2: I'll send an updated REGION30 segment to Ward, so the change gets represented in the officiel nodelist. Both steps will happen at almost the same time, with some fallback options in place.
For all systems with links to 2:301/1, there's nothing to change at all. Alisha's system is configured with the same session passwords as before. Her system will send crash to all the linked systems.
All echomail areas that were connected here, are also set up at the new system, so noone will have to re-connect anything. However, sending some areafix requests to 2:301/1 after the change is a good idea anyway. Her tools have a slightly different syntax than mine, so please start sending a %HELP to filefix / areafix at 2:301/1 then.
Shortly after the DNS change, my system will be reconfigured, so it will only respond to 2:30/0, 2:301/0 and my personal node number 2:301/101.
Feel free to route netmails through my system at 2:30/0. I will retain all the existing routing paths i currently have. I will stay NC for 2:301 and RC for 2:30.
For questions about the transition, please get in touch with Alisha and/or myself:
If you have my mobile phone number, please feel free to get in touch with me via Signal, Telegram and iMessage.
I want to thank all of my current links and contacts for your effort in keeping fidonet alive. Alisha an i (but mainly Alisha) will do our part to keep fidonet switzerland alive, and maybe grow it a bit.
And finally, many thanks to Alisha for supporting the retro scene and fidonet with all your motivation, effort an ressources. I wish you a lot of fun, few technical difficulties and great exchanges with our colleagues all over he world.
Best wishes, Matthias --- GoldED+/W64-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707 * Origin: MHS Systems (2:301/1)
