Subj : Re: Inspired by Nodelrpt.com v1.04 by K.
To   : Nick Andre
From : Ozz Nixon
Date : Tue Jul 24 2018 12:16 pm


NA> It may be a good idea to scrap the "Hub" part of your report or at least
NA> make it an option in whatever this program is that you wrote.

As always, I appreciate your knowledge and feedback. As the subject line
states, I cloned Nodelrpt by K.G. Pace - part of cloning is including all
functionality of the orginal program. Now, everything I write (Fido-oriented)
is Open Source, MIT licensed. People can produce whatever variation they would
like. In this case, my goal is to bring back many of the 1992->1999 utilities
and reports that were 8bit and 16bit. This report engine was so old, it was
released as a DOS .COM binary instead of .EXE.

Usefulness? I do not care personally. It is just allowing me to get my hands
wet and again "reboot" some of the old utilities that were popular - or at
least published. I found this one in an email between Lisa Gronk and Randy Bush
in 1995. Personally, I find it useful to see how many nodes are in each region
in the US, the rest was just "work". ;-)

I will make Hubs a command line switch when I release this. I have ran it on 12
years of node lists for Fidonet, and on 7 or 8 other networks. Many of the
non-Fido do not even leverage Regions. . . just Zone, Hosts and Blank (nodes).

Ozz

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