Subj : Who is dumping fsx posts into dovenet?
To   : Blue White
From : Oli
Date : Thu Jan 12 2023 10:51:14

Blue wrote (2023-01-11):

 -=>> Oli wrote to Al <=-

 A>> I'm not sure how it happened. I suspect someone used area number 3002
 A>> when they meant 2002. Those area numbers are important. Area 2002 is
 A>> just as unique and the area tag ASIAN_LINK, if you enter it wrong
 A>> something wrong will happen.

 Ol>> Tada!

 Ol>> Conference numbers were a bad design decision. It might be okay for
 Ol>> downloading QWK packages by users, but for networking it's a recipe
 Ol>> for exactly that kind of errors and mistakes (and I wouldn't be
 Ol>> surprised if it often enough breaks with offline reading too).

 BW> If you enter a QWK number wrong, something wrong will happen.
 BW> If you enter an FTN tag wrong, something wrong will happen.

 BW> I don't see the "tada" moment there, unless you are saying they are both
 BW> bad decisions, which you don't appear to be.

But the namespace for a couple of numbers is much smaller and numbers are not self-explanatory. How easy is it to spot a mistake? Just imagine Usenet would have used 16-bit numbers instead of names.

Btw, you reply message is one of the examples that does not have a REPLY kludge and therefore breaks message threading. Even the simplest things (copying a field/kludge into another) seems to be hard or error prone with QWK.


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