peter.sherbin@bell.ca wrote:

Jeroen, thanks for your response.

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The application has to: 1. avoid renumbering of the network Why? Your application should be able to use renumber easily using a form of management interface.

I am using addresses to monitor my devices all the way through their life cycle. In some cases it could be a physical life cycle from a few weeks to a few years. I may also aggregate individual items to larger sub groups. That is why I do not want any changes to static addresses for unspecified time.

The solution for the above can easily be solved by using DNS or a myriad of other solutions. Either you give all those devices a DNS label where they can contact their 'report server' or you give those devices the ability to register to that server. There are many possibilities here and none of these require any specific address space. I suggest you check out mail spam bots and viruses. They implement this all too perfectly well. <SNIP>

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PS: You might want to delete unused parts of emails, sending 27kb of quoted email which you don't reference is useless. Also changing the subject helps identifying what you are actually mailing about.

It is a learning curve. will do next time. thanks for pointing this out.

I suggest you also read the following article: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html (Lines 80 chars and more are not very readable either) Greets, Jeroen