Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : andrew clarke
From : Scott Little
Date : Mon Nov 11 2002 10:59 am

[ 10 Nov 02 20:33, andrew clarke wrote to Scott Little ]

ac> I don't see any need to change from Txy to T:xy really

Because it's unnecessarily complex to parse.

>> The reason I mention it to you is because it's easier to have the
>> flag translations built into the node translation that it would be
>> to modify it later after native HRN software is already using Txy.

ac> No need.  The idea is to get HRN used as the primary nodelist format
ac> used for distribution by the ZCs.

Yeah, and?  Eventually someone will write mail software that natively reads
HRN, and then it will be too late to change the flags.  The time to fix the
flags is NOW, because the HRN->SLF converter can also convert the new flags
back to the old ones.  Simply: old software reads old flags and old nodelist
format, new software reads new flags and new nodelist format.


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