Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Scott Little
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sat Nov 02 2002 05:55 am

Fri 2002-11-01 21:32, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

>>     keyword defines the address of a node in the nodelist.  Point
>>     addresses are not permitted.  Each time an Address line appears in

> Why no point addresses allowed?  The offical Fidonet nodelist won't
> include points, but the spec should allow them otherwise yet another
> format will be required for points.

Someone sent me a copy of the Z2/Z6 pointlist just after I wrote that. It's
7Mb!  Even if a quarter of the people in it are actually real people then
they're probably worth catering for.  ;-)

I couldn't think of a rationale for including them at the time.  After reading
the spec for the pointlist format documented in FTS-5002, I see it suffers from
the same inadequecies of the FTS-5 nodelist, ie. fields 3 to 8 of the Boss
entry in the pointlist must be a copy of the same corresponding fields in the
nodelist entry unless those fields are left out altogether, etc.

Also, I'd forgotten about the "Point format" lists (documented in FTS-5002)
entirely.

Anyway, points will be allowed!  I'll amend the spec soon.  ;-)

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