Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Scott Little
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Nov 13 2002 05:58 am

Hi Scott.

11-Nov-02 10:59:27, Scott Little wrote to andrew clarke


SL> [ 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

SL> 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
ac>> format used for distribution by the ZCs.

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

The Tyz flag could dropped fron HRN being converted to online specifiers
instead

-=> Bye <=-

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