Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Jasen Betts
From : andrew clarke
Date : Wed Nov 06 2002 08:01 am

Sun 2002-11-03 13:09, Jasen Betts (3:640/531.42) wrote to Scott Little:

SL>> There should be no technical limit to the number of peers allowed,

> yeah, "technical" limits are a result of lazy programmers.
> software with technical limits often has other shortcomings,

I think you mean "artificially-imposed" limits.  I'd be a bit careful to
generalise though.  Sometimes these limits are necessary because they make
software design too complex or impractical without them.  This was particularly
true in the DOS days.  It's still relevant now though, eg.  a limit of
4,294,967,295 messages per messagebase file is still a limit, even if you can
effectively treat it as if there were no limit.

(I agree with Scott btw. :-)

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