Subj : Re: callip.nl
To   : Stas Mishchenkov
From : Nodelist Police Commissioner
Date : Sun Feb 06 2022 13:31:46

Hello Stas,

On 2022-02-06 12:45:22, you wrote to me:

 SM>>> How can we talk about spyware in case of open source? ;)

 NPC>> I said "act like spyware"! ;-)

 SM> Ok. ;)

 SM>>>          -u,--update            - How to update programm. Optional.
 SM>>>                                   =a - auto. Check for a new version,
 SM>>> download
 SM>>>                                        and update.
 SM>>>                                   =d - download. Checks for a new
 SM>>> version and
 SM>>>                                        download the update to a new
 SM>>> file.
 SM>>>                                   =w - warn. Checks for a new version
 SM>>> and warn
 SM>>>                                        the sysop. Default.
 SM>>>                                   =n - no. Do nothing.

 NPC>> The last (-u=n) should be the default!

 SM> I think otherwise. Strictly speaking, with such a wide range of
 SM> configurability, the default value can be any convenient for the author. ;)

If you want to do it like spyware does it... :-(

Btw: If I put 'update no' in a configuration file, it ignores it. :-(

 NPC>>>>>> - 29 Jan 12:28:15 [17842] SYS linux
 NPC>>>>>> - 29 Jan 12:28:15 [17842] ZYZ Evil Robot
 NPC>>>>>> - 29 Jan 12:28:15 [17842] LOC Sinferopol, Crimea

 NPC>>>> Btw: Does the binkp protocol require that you send these, or can a
 NPC>>>> valid connection be made without them?

 SM>>> A valid connection may be made without them.

 NPC>> Can callip.pl made to do that?

 SM> What do you mean?
 SM> Do you consider it necessary to be able to disable the sending of this
 SM> information? It seems to me that such an insignificant saving of traffic
 SM> can only cause annoyance of the called sysop with the anonymous call.

I don't consider it necessary. But you could leave it up to the user of the script, to send this information or not?


Requests:

I would like to specify something like below in the config file:

nodelist /home/fido/nodelist/NODELIST.*

So I don't have to change the config file every time there is a nodelist update.


Also, flags, should be something like:
# busy flags dir name.
flags /home/fido/outbound 2

Like the domain line in binkd.conf. So it automatically uses the right outbound[.XXX] directory where binkd also does this. Otherwise 'flags' is not useful for fidonet...


Regards, NPC.

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