Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To : Jan Vermeulen
From : Micael Bulow
Date : Sat Jan 04 2003 05:38 am
JV> No kidding: I write part of the nodelist, every week. My part's
JV> title is REGION28.xxx.
JV> And I intend to continue to write it as I've always done, using
JV> a plain dos text editor.
That would be no problem. You could still do that with XML.
JV> The current and not yet old format is needed by most, but that
Yes. Today. Not tomorrow.
JV> And you're incapable of writing a nodelist parser in order to
JV> obtain an XML database?
Your'e missing the point.
But, judgeing by the latest weeks of discussions, the rest of the community
seem to want an old comma-demelited textfile eaven in the future, so I think we
can put this battle on hold (for now). :-)
