[drats_users] d-rats email / map use ?

[Dan Smith]

> when I ask to a station for the version... the station could answer its
> services... you can choose a different color for the station name in the
> right bar and put detailed info into its tooltip window. The question
> is: what kind of services we need to know? Only e-mail gateway? And what
> kind of info (description) we can do?

This is a good idea, although maybe it makes more sense to either (a)
include that information in the ping or (b) have a separate service
discovery action?  Right now, a ping causes a host to return a ping
response *and* a status advertisement (online, away, description).

We could include a service map in status advertisement, which would be
easiest.

Some services I can think of:

  - Email gateway
  - A/DPRS gateway (future)
  - Public file server
  - Message queue (i.e., send me messages and my station will relay them
    when the destination comes online)
  - Bulletin server (future)

and maybe some other status notes such as:

  - No voice capabilities
  - Unmanned station

What do you think?

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Dan Smith
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