-----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 14:44 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Area 48..... 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. :) -brian Actually, it worked quite well! In my group most people that had hidden area nodes also had accounts on non-hidden area clusters so most of their email was fine. In fact, cluster aliases had to be non-hidden so it all just worked out. I remember using "mail", "phone", and "notes" without issues. -Steve