"If at all applicable to your intent, you must design your applications to embrace Store & Forward

Instead of demanding an immediate answer, your application should act as a patient participant. You create a message for someone or something in the mesh. The network holds it. It carries it from node to node, perhaps over hours or days, waiting for the recipient to appear. When they finally surface, the message is delivered"
https://reticulum.network/manual/zen.html#design-patterns-for-post-ip-systems

#Reticulum #StoreAndForward
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Zen of Reticulum - Reticulum Network Stack 1.1.3 documentation

Tolerating Delay With DTN

The Internet has spoiled us. You assume network packets either show up pretty quickly or they are never going to show up. Even if you are using WiFi in a crowded sports stadium or LTE on the side o…

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#Question How would you reimagining, reinventing email & usenet in 2025?

An open, terminal native, low-resource, slow pace, textual/unicode, store & forward, self-configuring, delay & disruption tolerant, inherently private & secure, spam-free, peer-to-peer, trivial to self-host, with self-generated self-owned addresses (eg: ssh public keys) which you can take with you from system to system?

#NomadicIdentities #SelfHosting #StoreAndForward #DelayAndDisruptionTolerant
#EMail #UseNet #ReImagined

#meshtastic #solar #storeandforward node test - just to see if it works 24/7 in winter.... details here https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/40#discussion-7416511
Testing a solar store and forward (S&F) balcony node using off-the-shelf components · meshtastic · Discussion #40

Background: some nodes can run the module “Store and Forward” (S&F) and so can store messages that are sent in the Mesh. A “client” node can request messages the client node missed, by sending to t...

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Solar node on a 9 m pole trying to run store and forward for #meshtastic #solarnode #storeandforward
see details here https://meshtastic.discourse.group/t/solar-store-forward-pole-node-test/14956
Solar store & forward pole node test

Store & forward solar node on telescopic 9 m pole - test build. Jackery 240 based Jackery Explorer 100 Plus based - does not work. Parts list Node: Lilygo T3 S3 T3 S3 – LILYGO® LoRa Antenna: Taoglas FW.86.B.SMA.M - Antenne, ISM, 850 … 890 MHz, 240mm, 3.5 dBi, SMA male, Verschraubung, Taoglas https://www.distrelec.de/antenne-ism-850-890-mhz-240mm-dbi-sma-male-verschraubung-taoglas-fw-86-sma/p/30285131 Distrelect Art. Nr. 302-85-131 Manuf. Part. FW.86.B.SMA.M Bluetooth ante...

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launching a node out of a velux window on a 10 m pole on a foggy bank holiday #meshtastic #solarnode #storeandforward
Solar store & forward pole node

Store & forward solar node on telescopic 9 m pole Parts list Node: Lilygo T3 S3 T3 S3 – LILYGO® LoRa Antenna: Taoglas FW.86.B.SMA.M - Antenne, ISM, 850 … 890 MHz, 240mm, 3.5 dBi, SMA male, Verschraubung, Taoglas https://www.distrelec.de/antenne-ism-850-890-mhz-240mm-dbi-sma-male-verschraubung-taoglas-fw-86-sma/p/30285131 Distrelect Art. Nr. 302-85-131 Manuf. Part. FW.86.B.SMA.M Bluetooth antenna and fixation parts Amazon.de Why a bluetooth antenna? Because the range is far better t...

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You see, (as an example) #GMRS is not allowed to do "#storeAndForward" but does "#linkedRepeaters" which are not considered "store and forward" by the FCC
Hands On With Boondock Echo

Perhaps no words fill me with more dread than, “I hear there’s something going around.” In my experience, you hear this when some nasty bug has worked its way into the community a…

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