Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Jan Vermeulen
From : Micael Bulow
Date : Sat Jan 04 2003 05:38 am

 JV>     No kidding: I write part of the nodelist, every week. My part's
 JV> title is REGION28.xxx.
 JV>     And I intend to continue to write it as I've always done, using
 JV> a plain dos text editor.

That would be no problem. You could still do that with XML.

 JV>     The current and not yet old format is needed by most, but that

Yes. Today. Not tomorrow.

 JV>     And you're incapable of writing a nodelist parser in order to
 JV> obtain an XML database?

Your'e missing the point.

But, judgeing by the latest weeks of discussions, the rest of the community 
seem to want an old comma-demelited textfile eaven in the future, so I think we 
can put this battle on hold (for now). :-) 

//Micke 
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