Subj : Nodelist Flags
To   : mark lewis
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun May 31 2020 11:20 am

Hello mark,

On Saturday May 30 2020 09:36, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

WvV>> So, userflags like: U,TRUMP_IS_SUCH_A_NICE_MAN would be ok for
WvV>> you?

ml> according to the spec and long standing existing practise, yes...

Long standing existing practise....  hmmm...

In Z2, the largest zone BTW, existing practise for over two decades has been that all nodelist flags, including user flags, are subject to ZC approval. Like it or not that has been long standing existing practise for the larger part of Fidonet.

ml> sure it does... to a point... fidonet, however, has been having their
ml> eyes covered, though, by some who insist that all nodelist flags, U or
ml> not, are so-called approved or they will strip them... one day, folks
ml> will wake up and smell the roses and this so-called "approved U flags"
ml> nonsense will go out the window

Maybe. Or maybe the other way around. Maybe one day folks now in favour of allowing any nonsense that anyone can come up with in the user flags will wake up and see that having some restrictions on user flags isn't such a bad idea after all...


Cheers, Michiel

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