Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Scott Little
From : Jan Vermeulen
Date : Mon Jan 06 2003 09:45 pm

    Quoting Scott Little on Mon 6 Jan 2003 16:56 to Jan Vermeulen:

 JV>>     I may still have my off day, 'coz I did not see any new features,
 JV>> no more ease and my screen is still as dull as it was before. All I
 JV>> saw was more room for the same data.

 sl> Because you said "convert this" so you were given some demos...

    And the result was a flood of additional characters and empty space...

 JV>>     In another posting I have explainend what logistic problems can be
 JV>> expected from the dual nodelist project you propose.

 sl> I expect that to be more of a problem (if any) in your zone than
 sl> the rest...

    Could well be so, with over 75% of the Fidonet population.

 JV>>     I would have liked it to be different and thus I will continue to
 JV>> find ways of improvement, step by step in order not to break the net.

 sl> Perhaps you can outline your vision for step by step improvement...

    I'm working on that.

 sl> without making the nodelist bigger,

    The evarage increase per /affected/ node should not be more than 15%, 
probably much less in those cases were a few caracters would suffice.

 sl> without making it incompatible with existing nodes...

    Assuring that will take a lot of care and require additional steps to be 
made.

 sl> ... and all your other beefs.. ?

    How would you know that I'm not a vegaterian who would take offence from 
this expression?


    -=<[ JV ]>=-

 
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