Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : andrew clarke
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Mon Nov 11 2002 06:26 am

Hi andrew.

10-Nov-02 16:19:32, andrew clarke wrote to Scott Little


 ac> Sun 2002-11-10 10:44, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew
 ac> clarke:

  >> St Louis and XML both enforce proper structure in the format
  >> itself, without relying on ignorable rules in the specification.
  >> (and eventually someone will try an alternate use for the Uplink,
  >> you watch)

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

I don't see why that is... people ignore other rules in the current
nodelist... I've seen hubs that were uncontactable... that sort of thing.

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

you might think.

 -=> Bye <=-

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