Subj : In the future..
To   : August Abolins
From : Deon George
Date : Mon Jun 01 2020 12:26 pm

 Re: In the future..
 By: August Abolins to All on Sun May 31 2020 11:39 am

AA> The internet has effectively depricated the need for dialup which FTN was
AA> originally based upon. The nodelist still has a placeholder for a
AA> phonenumber that is only configured for a handful of systems.  When is it
AA> time to abandon that field for something else?

Well, what happens when something else is in that field? I suspect nothing, because it can either be numerical (a phone number), an IP address (I've seen some implementations like this - prefixed with 000- IIRC), or text "-Unpublished-" as is used in some cases.

So while the major method of automated connectivity between systems (with a mailer) has changed from phone to IP, a logical replacement for that field would be the nodes hostname (retiring the need for INA:). (Saving 4 chars plus the length of whatever was in that field preivously.)

If a hostname was used, a phone number, an IP address or "Unpublished" could still be used, where systems wanted that to be their preferred method of automated connectivity from other systems. However, I guess, any nodelist compilers that were specifically looking for the text "-Unpublished-" or numbers may have a problem that is unfixable.

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