Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (056)
To   : Nodelist Police Commissioner
From : Stas Mishchenkov
Date : Fri Mar 04 2022 01:30:56

Hi, Nodelist!

03 мар 22 18:20, Nodelist Police Commissioner -> Stas Mishchenkov:

 NC>>>> Pvt,48,Kkts_BBS,Krasnodar,Dmitry_Smirnov,-Unpublished-,300,CM,MO

 MvdV>>> "CM" and "MO" for a Pvt node?

 SM>> Despite the fact that MO in this case does not make sense, I think that
 SM>> it makes sense to leave it. Some legacy programs have a bug with a line
 SM>> that has no flags at all.

 NPC> Which ones?

For example, an old nodelist.pl from the binkd set. You know when I found out about this problem.

 NPC>  Are they still used?

How many sysops do you think have already applied the patch that Pavel took into account when recently fixing errors in nodelist.pl.

 NPC>  You have to be more specific when you
 NPC> make such claims, otherwise it's just hearsay with not much value.

I suspect that this is not the only example of such a reading of the nodelist. Before that, there were no nodes without flags at all.

Have nice nights.
       Stas Mishchenkov.

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