Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : andrew clarke
From : Frank Vest
Date : Mon Nov 11 2002 04:45 am

On (11 Nov 02) andrew clarke wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello andrew,

 ac> Sun 2002-11-10 15:40, Frank Vest (1:124/6308.1) wrote to andrew
 ac> clarke:
 > A new format should have an "order" and that "order", if adopted,
 > would be the Hierarchy. IE:
 > 1:100/100
 > 1:101/100
 > and so forth. The simple act of numerical order is a Hierarchy. :)

 ac> But the HRN proposal I wrote currently allows for nodes to be listed
 ac> randomly, with hierachy information (Parent) for each node to allow
 ac> the human/software to find the true hierachy.

I guess I'm an organizational freak. To me, human readable or not,
there should be some form of order. Listing random order just seems
wrong. Maybe it wouldn't matter to a program, but to me it does. :-)

 > So, if Fidonet is to keep the current Zone Region Net Node hierarchy,
 > yes, we need that in the new format. If not, then no, we don't need
 > it.

 ac> Over Fido's dead body...  I don't see it happening.  ;-)

Agreed. It has also been argued that Fidonet could make do with one
Zone and one Net. I don't see that happening either. ;)


Frank

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