Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Scott Little
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Nov 13 2002 05:58 am

Hi Scott.

11-Nov-02 10:59:27, Scott Little wrote to andrew clarke


 SL> [ 10 Nov 02 20:33, andrew clarke wrote to Scott Little ]

 ac>> I don't see any need to change from Txy to T:xy really

 SL> Because it's unnecessarily complex to parse.

 >>> The reason I mention it to you is because it's easier to have the
 >>> flag translations built into the node translation that it would be
 >>> to modify it later after native HRN software is already using Txy.

 ac>> No need.  The idea is to get HRN used as the primary nodelist
 ac>> format used for distribution by the ZCs.

 SL> Yeah, and?  Eventually someone will write mail software that
 SL> natively reads HRN, and then it will be too late to change the
 SL> flags.  The time to fix the flags is NOW, because the HRN->SLF
 SL> converter can also convert the new flags back to the old ones.
 SL> Simply: old software reads old flags and old nodelist format, new
 SL> software reads new flags and new nodelist format

The Tyz flag could dropped fron HRN being converted to online specifiers
instead

 -=> Bye <=-

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