Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To : Scott Little
From : Jan Vermeulen
Date : Mon Jan 06 2003 09:45 pm
Quoting Scott Little on Mon 6 Jan 2003 16:56 to Jan Vermeulen:
JV>> I may still have my off day, 'coz I did not see any new features,
JV>> no more ease and my screen is still as dull as it was before. All I
JV>> saw was more room for the same data.
sl> Because you said "convert this" so you were given some demos...
And the result was a flood of additional characters and empty space...
JV>> In another posting I have explainend what logistic problems can be
JV>> expected from the dual nodelist project you propose.
sl> I expect that to be more of a problem (if any) in your zone than
sl> the rest...
Could well be so, with over 75% of the Fidonet population.
JV>> I would have liked it to be different and thus I will continue to
JV>> find ways of improvement, step by step in order not to break the net.
sl> Perhaps you can outline your vision for step by step improvement...
I'm working on that.
sl> without making the nodelist bigger,
The evarage increase per /affected/ node should not be more than 15%,
probably much less in those cases were a few caracters would suffice.
sl> without making it incompatible with existing nodes...
Assuring that will take a lot of care and require additional steps to be
made.
sl> ... and all your other beefs.. ?
How would you know that I'm not a vegaterian who would take offence from
this expression?
-=<[ JV ]>=-
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