Subj : Net Development
To   : Jan Vermeulen
From : Bill Birrell
Date : Sat Jan 04 2003 11:24 pm

 >     XML zipped nodelists are approx 30% _larger_; I do
 > not know if this is due to the tags (which are needed
 > in order xml will work) or to a less efficient zip
 > library caused by those tags.

    With the present FidoNet Policy document (4.07) that is going to be a 
problem. As things stand the only approvable changes are those which reduce the 
size of the nodelist and therefore the cost of distribution.

    Would you please confirm that I have interpreted policy correctly? If so, 
it would seem that the XML nodelist would have to be distributed by internet if 
at all. That brings back the ethical problem of the dime that I mentioned 
earlier. I have personally sidestepped that lemma by keeping FTS and internet 
entirely separate.

    I note with approval that Scott Little takes public domain source for 
granted. I hope his fellow developers share this view.

Best Wishes,
Bill.

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