On 7 Jan 2013, at 14:43, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote: On 1/7/2013 2:41 PM, Steve Davidson wrote: This was referred to as PMR (Poor Mans Routing). The concept was not new because it had been used in previous versions of DECnet anyway, the application was... Sort of... HECnet has reserved area 63 for hidden area nodes - to play with mostly. I did some playing around last year. If I can ever find my notes (from DEC days) about the whole setup I will get back to playing some more with it. This sounds like it was a bad idea back then and a bad idea now. :) Oooooh! Bad idea! Let's do it. -brian