Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Jan Vermeulen
From : Scott Little
Date : Mon Jan 06 2003 07:20 am

 [ 05 Jan 03 18:49, Jan Vermeulen wrote to Scott Little ]

Forgive me if I'm a little harsh, but...

 JV>     311 characters where the nodelist uses 143. 217%...
[snip]
 JV>     377 characters for 117 in the nodelist: 322%

Stupid arguement.

 JV>     Either way, it takes a lot more screen and a lot more typing for
 JV> *Cs that are supposed to keep their part of the nodelist up to date.

Stupid arguement.

 JV>     Parsing by a mailer will take considerably more time, wether it
 JV> builds its own database or uses the XML file instead of the GONL (Good
 JV> Old NodeList).

Stupid arguement.

 JV>     The size of the uncompressed XML nodelist will be about 275% of
 JV> the GONL; your compression ratio will be better becayse of the many
 JV> spaces so you may end up with a zip file size of 135%.

Stupid arguement.

 JV>     You're worse off as soon as you start adding charcters over 0x7F
 JV> and follow the UT-8 or even UNICODE rules.

Stupid arguement.


You seem to have a problem understanding that XML or any other new format is 
not just a rearrangement of the old one.  You're expecting something for 
nothing, and it's not going to happen.  A new format has "MORE FEATURES, MORE 
EASY, MORE SHINY!" and it's going to get bigger as a result.  *This is the 
desired outcome*  If you don't like it, then stay with SLF and all it's 
limitations.


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