Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : mark lewis
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 09:47 pm

Sun 2002-11-10 02:01, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> I don't know what alternate use people would use for the
 ac>> Uplink keyword, but it won't matter, because the spec won't
 ac>> allow them to.  And anyone using broken software that doesn't
 ac>> comply to the spec would be risking being denodelisted until
 ac>> they stop using it presumably.

 > erm... the current use of the "BBS Name" field in the currently used 
 > St. Louis Format (SLF) nodelist as a domain name instead of the system 
 > name is one such example of an alternative use... granted, its not 
 > being misused in what you are proposing or working on but it is a 
 > possibility that someone may do the same...

Field 3: Node name

FTS-5 = "This is the name by which the node is known"

FTS-5000 = "This is the name by which the node is known.  For IP nodes this 
field may alternately contain an ip address or E-Mail address for email 
tunneling programs."

Nothing about a BBS name there.  Not that I even run a BBS, but for people who 
do, why should they care about what's in that field anyway? What difference 
does it make?  Maybe the ZCs can all mark the field with a big X for every node 
in their zone.  Then it would make the nodelist smaller for all the people 
complaining about the nodelist being too big.  Then you'll get people whinging 
about how the nodelist is shrinking and we're all doomed.  So we're all doomed.

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