[drats_users] d-rats email / map use ?

[IZ5FSA, Leo]

Good idea.
Starting from basics and improving in the future with new features is
the best way.


2009/10/16 Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>:
>> 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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73s de Leo, IZ5FSA
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