Hello, mark.

Monday March 07 2011 at 21:31, you wrote to David Collins:

 DC>> xml format for easy parsing goodness unlike file_id.diz.

 ml> parsing? whatever for? the things are made only to be stuffed into the
 ml> BBS' file description area... nothing more... if an author wants to

I dunno why people need to fix FILE_ID.DIZ-450 characters should me MORE
than enough space to put in a short description of the file so people would
be interested enough to download the file to find out more...which what I
thought was the intention.

 ml> are you saying that your bbs doesn't support a normal bayesian search
 ml> of textual data and that it requires some sort of database oriented
 ml> search stuffings?? i find it much easier to simply run thru a simple
 ml> text file or simple filebase format of descriptions :P

It's called laziness; people can't use the text search or filename
functions built into nearly every BBS.  This I can attest to personally-I
had one (now former, thank God) user who couldn't figure out what a
"wildcard" was...

 ml> sometimes things can go quite wrong or at least differently than
 ml> desired... depending on who reads the text written ;)

Good luck getting anyone to put that format into a BBS.  Well, maybe
Synchronet, but that's their thing I guess.

As an author myself, I can tell you I'm too damn lazy to do much more than
a basic FILE_ID.DIZ for my software.  Really.  That's just overboard...

Later,
Sean

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