<div>Hi Dirk</div> <div> </div> <div>The purpose of the local node on ARC was for users in an area served by several nodes to be able to see who was connecting to all of the area's nodes. I don't believe it serves any other purpose.</div> <div> </div> <div>In my user program I use the connecting/disconnecting information to display a real time list of who is connected.</div> <div> </div> <div>Lee</div> <div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div> </div> <div>Ok. I'll bite, I can see a simple enough way to do that. We simply mark<BR>nodes as being part of such a group and do some tiddling with the 'user<BR>logged in/out' logic. It doesn't actually require any extra protocol<BR>chitchat to achieve. </div> <div>However, before I look at that, what else does this 'local node'<BR>paradigm do on AR-C? Or indeed what other things could we do that would<BR>be useful that
could also be inferred from the normal protocol?</div> <div>Dirk</div><p>
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