Subj : Nodelist Phone Field (consistency?)
To   : All
From : Ozz Nixon
Date : Tue Jun 19 2018 09:05 pm

Hello All,

  I am not sure whom I should be addressing with this suggestion/question.
Nick sent me here, so my question:

  Instead of using -Unpublished- for the phone field for a lot of the unlist
or TCP based systems, and in other zones we are using 000-0-0-0-0, why not use
000-0-0-0-0 for both 000-0-0-0-0 and -Unpublished-? Since we (Fido) have always
been about optmization and small as possible node list lines ... this proposal
would save us 2 bytes on every line currently yielding -Unpublished-. This
weeks node list has 1024 -Unpublished- enrties, this switch would literally
shrink the uncompressed nodelist by 2kb.

Thank you for your time,
Ozz

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