Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Scott Little
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 08:57 pm

Sun 2002-11-10 17:08, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> If there are rules in the spec, they can't be ignored!

 > Uh, why are we here?  Coz everyone's ignoring the nodelist specs and 
 > putting shit everywhere under all manner of status flags (Pvt, Hold and 
 > whatnot).

 ac>> You just can't do that. ;-)

 > They can and will.. mark my words </cranky old fart>

Well, I'm not saying they won't.  Nothing will stop people doing incorrect 
things.  The point is the spec won't allow them to and still be conformant.

In terms of FTS-5/5000/5001, what there really needs to be is another document 
listing all the things you specifically can't do in the nodelist, and why, 
and/or what software will break if you do, because it seems fairly obvious that 
people don't want to stop using software from 10+ years ago, eg. MAKENL.

 ac>> I don't know what alternate use people would use for the Uplink

 > They can use it as their echomail route instead of Host route.  It's 
 > more likely that you may think...

Yeah, OK.  Just using Parent instead of Uplink should stop any confusion there. 
 Hopefully!

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