Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To : Scott Little
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 08:57 pm
Sun 2002-11-10 17:08, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:
ac>> If there are rules in the spec, they can't be ignored!
> Uh, why are we here? Coz everyone's ignoring the nodelist specs and
> putting shit everywhere under all manner of status flags (Pvt, Hold and
> whatnot).
ac>> You just can't do that. ;-)
> They can and will.. mark my words </cranky old fart>
Well, I'm not saying they won't. Nothing will stop people doing incorrect
things. The point is the spec won't allow them to and still be conformant.
In terms of FTS-5/5000/5001, what there really needs to be is another document
listing all the things you specifically can't do in the nodelist, and why,
and/or what software will break if you do, because it seems fairly obvious that
people don't want to stop using software from 10+ years ago, eg. MAKENL.
ac>> I don't know what alternate use people would use for the Uplink
> They can use it as their echomail route instead of Host route. It's
> more likely that you may think...
Yeah, OK. Just using Parent instead of Uplink should stop any confusion there.
Hopefully!
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