Subj : Lies, damned lies and statistics
To   : Scott Little
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:03

Hello Scott!

16 Jan 13 16:56, you wrote to me:

 SL> I've been using it as N712C since 2008-04-08 and as Z3C since 2010-02-10.
 SL> I don't know when Malcolm switched.

 Thanks for the update.

 SL> This has been possible within Z3 since at least 2005-08-28.  Both Malcolm
 SL> and myself used scripts to convert between the domestic and international
 SL> formats.  Outgoing ZONE3 segments have the Pvt flag reinstated, incoming
 SL> zone segments have it removed, as well as replacing all forms of fake
 SL> phone numbers with -Unpublished-.

 That is a pragmatic solution, I started doing somthing similar, but I am
 only a nodelist user.

 KE>>   Wasted time of the developers of makenl_ng: ?????

 SL> The simple solution would be to use scripts to send backwards compatible
 SL> versions of each zone segment to Z4C, while everyone else uses the modern
 SL> version.

 This may take some time, some ZC's use a MS-OS. Scripting there is not as
 sophisticated, but it should be possible to find someone who can do the
 job in C or Pascal. The last would not be my favorit.

Kees

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