On 2012-06-29 01:37, Steve Davidson wrote: PMR works great with hidden areas! If the Italian network went to a hidden network, then we could designate a router to deal with the connection between the two of them. In our current scheme they would have to go to either area 63 (currently used for this kind of thing - on a site-by-site basis) or free up area 62 and define max area to be something less then whichever area number we chose. If we get them to renumber, they might as well renumber to any "public" area... Johnny -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 09:57 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] "Poor mans routing" and the Italian Hobbyist DECNET Guys, Do you think it would be possible to have a host that would somehow bridge HECnet with the Italian DECNET and then use the "poor mans routing" (i.e. HOST1::HOST2::<object) to pass e.g. mail across our two networks? I have no idea how this works in practice, but just throwing the idea out there. From what I understood is that the Italians use many of the same nets / nodes as us (mainly network 1) which would make a network merger impractical. Sampsa -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol