Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (056)
To   : Stas Mishchenkov
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Mar 04 2022 11:06:22

Hello Stas,

On Friday March 04 2022 01:30, you wrote to Nodelist Police Commissioner:

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

I do not know and I do not care. The fix is available. So if sysops encounter problems it is their problem, not mine. Rewarding lazy sysops that do not update buggy software is a bad idea.

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

I am too lazy to try to falsify that last statement but the fact is that lines without flags are kosher according to FTS-5000:

 Field 8+: Flags (optional)

     Type: string;  Length: varied;  Characters: varied.

     Any remaining fields from position eight (8) onward are flag
     fields.  Note there may or may not be a trailing comma after
     Field 7 if there are no flags listed.

     See FTS-5001 for details on the flag fields, including length
     restrictions.


Cheers, Michiel

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