On Tuesday November 05 2013 09:28, you wrote to Alexey Vissarionov:
AV>> As I already told, it's useless.
WD> I concur.
WD> Further to that, I think that if/when IPv6 really becomes an issue,
IPv6 already IS an issue. APNIC end RIPE ran out of IPv4 addresses in 2011 and 2012. There already are places in the world where end users no longer get a globally routable IPv4 address. They get a RFC-1918 or RFC-6598 address. And it is not far away in the east, it happens right here. Today my laptop got 100.106.202.243 on its 3G dongle. That is not a globally routable address, I can not run a server on that address.
It has not affected Fidonet yet, but I expect Fidonet to live long enough to see it happen.
WD> a sufficient number of people will abandon not to kill Fidonet but to WD> make it grind to a de-facto standstill.
Predicting the future is notoriously difficult and error prone. I once predicted Fidonet would be dead on 1 January 2001. Obviously I was wrong. You say IPv6 will not need be an issue for Fidonet. Let me remind you of this:
"We do not need a telephone system, we have an excellent system of messenger boys".
"640K ought to be enough for anybody"
"There will be a need world wide for at most five computers".
