Subj : Net Development
To   : Jan Vermeulen
From : Bill Birrell
Date : Tue Dec 31 2002 12:24 am

Jan,

    It appears that there has been a significant misunderstanding. Scott Little 
is not proposing to replace the distribution nodelist with an XML nodelist, but 
to run an XML based nodelist in parallel with the standard one.

    This would harm nobody.

    By all means, let him go ahead. If it has sufficient merit it will 
eventually be taken up by more and more people. That is how Fido grew from the 
FidoNet Experiment, and I can see nothing against it now. In any case he needs 
neither consent nor approval from us to do what he proposes.

    The only things he might have to be careful of are the various data 
protection laws, if he proposes to make significant changes in the content of 
the nodelist.

    As an aside it is a little sad that you write far better English than he 
does. But then I don't speak Strine, either. :-)

Best Wishes,
Bill.

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