Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Rick Van Ruth
From : andrew clarke
Date : Mon Nov 11 2002 12:04 am

Sun 2002-11-10 21:58, Rick Van Ruth (3:640/954) wrote to andrew clarke:

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...

ac>> Yeah, OK.  Just using Parent instead of Uplink should stop any
ac>> confusion there.  Hopefully!

> Why do you need either Parent or Uplink if its just to determine host
> routed mail? Wouldn't the order of your format dictate the host routing?

Because the HRL won't necessarily list nodes in hierachical order, although
maybe it should, just to reduce confusion.

What do others think?  Should a new nodelist format list nodes in hierachical
order like the St Louis format does?  And why.  ;-)

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