Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To : andrew clarke
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 02:01 am
ac> I don't know what alternate use people would use for the
ac> Uplink keyword, but it won't matter, because the spec won't
ac> allow them to. And anyone using broken software that doesn't
ac> comply to the spec would be risking being denodelisted until
ac> they stop using it presumably.
erm... the current use of the "BBS Name" field in the currently used St. Louis
Format (SLF) nodelist as a domain name instead of the system name is one such
example of an alternative use... granted, its not being misused in what you are
proposing or working on but it is a possibility that someone may do the same...
