Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : andrew clarke
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Mon Nov 11 2002 06:26 am

Hi andrew.

10-Nov-02 16:19:32, andrew clarke wrote to Scott Little


ac> Sun 2002-11-10 10:44, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew
ac> clarke:

 >> St Louis and XML both enforce proper structure in the format
 >> itself, without relying on ignorable rules in the specification.
 >> (and eventually someone will try an alternate use for the Uplink,
 >> you watch)

ac> If there are rules in the spec, they can't be ignored!

I don't see why that is... people ignore other rules in the current
nodelist... I've seen hubs that were uncontactable... that sort of thing.

ac> I don't know what alternate use people would use for the Uplink
ac> keyword, but it won't matter, because the spec won't allow them
ac> to.  And anyone using broken software that doesn't comply to the
ac> spec would be risking being denodelisted until they stop using it
ac> presumably

you might think.

-=> Bye <=-

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