Subj : Re: Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (056)
To   : Stas Mishchenkov
From : Nodelist Police Commissioner
Date : Fri Mar 04 2022 08:57:05

Hello Stas,

On 2022-03-04 01:30:56, you wrote to me:

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

 NPC>> Which ones?

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

Aha I didn't know (or didn't remember ;-)) that error we found was regarding such nodelist entries...

 NPC>>  Are they still used?

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

Those ',300$' entries aren't in the nodelist since yesterday, so apparently they aren't a big problem for those sysops using an unfixed nodelist.pl...


Regards, NPC.

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