Subj : Re: Nodelist Phone Field (consistency?)
To : Kees Van Eeten
From : Ozz Nixon
Date : Wed Jun 20 2018 01:50 pm
Kv> Somewhere in the history of Fidonet the notation 000-x-x-x-x was
Kv> introduced
Kv> to store IP adresses. That use of the phone field is now discouraged and
Thanks for the history of the implementation. (Honestly enjoy learning more and
more about the evolution of different aspects of FIDO).
Kv> The aim is to have -Unpublished- in all phonenumber fields when there is
Kv> no phonenumber available. All other seemingly harmless notations are
Thanks, I will incorporate -Unpublished- into my nodelist compiler and nodelist
builder, to be consistent.
Kv> If you ofset that space to the fact that most filesystems on current
Kv> size
Kv> disks, use blocksizes of 4kb, where is your gain.
Except for DOS based systems, some RaspberryPi systems, they are using 2kb and
512b blocks. Of course, this was just the first improvement I found.
Kv> If you really want to save on the size of the Nodelist for storage,
Kv> propose
Kv> to reduce the size of the prolog and epilog. These secttions are about
100% Agreed. It could be simplified to reference the FTSC.org documents, and a
mention they can ask in >best_echo_name< for any assistance. The nodelist does
not need to to explain in 2 verbose paragraphs what the file is? Let alone the
last 400 lines detailing the flags/etc. URL/HTTP/WEB/LINK.
Kv> Size was important when disks were small and transmission costs high.
Kv> Neither are true in this age of Internet connections and multi Tb disks.
I know in the USA, we still have some who do pay for bandwidth usage - WISPs
and Satellite Internet companies service these people - and every byte does
count.