Hi Frank.

08-Jan-03 19:30:15, Frank Vest wrote to mark lewis


 FV> On (08 Jan 03) mark lewis wrote to Frank Vest...

 FV> Hello mark,

 ml>> FV>> How many subfields? ml>> there is no count
given... the only
 ml>> restrictions placed ml>> on the content of field 8 have to do
 ml>> with the length of ml>> the Uflags (that they cannot be more than
 ml>> 32 characters ml>> in total) and that the UFlags are last in the
 ml>> line...
 FV>>  So, you're telling me that a nodelisting
 FV>> of: ,6308,Collin_County_Station,Mc
 FV>> Kinney_TX,Frank_Vest,1-972-562-8064,33600
 FV>> ,CM,XI,V34,V42b,I:web-idiot.d2g.com Would be ok??

 ml>> on the surface, yes... the format is correct... only two items i
 ml>> see a "problem" with...

 ml>> 1. there is no XI flag 2. there is no I flag

 FV> Yet. :-)

 ml>> where are you going with this?

 FV> Simple:

 FV> 1. Mailer flags for IP mailers. Let's say:

 FV> XI - Irex XR - Radius/Argus (running IP only. For one that does
 FV> both, I have no idea.)

X-flags are for the file request mechanism, not for identifying mailers.

 FV> An Ip mailer looks for my node and finds the listing I gave above.
 FV> The first thing is to look at the mailer flag. If it is "XI", the
 FV> mailer knows that the remote is using Irex and can do binkp,

it doesn't need to know the brand name of the mailer,
just the porotocols. naming the mailer couild cause confusion if a new
version is released that does different protocols...

 FV> Yes, this is just a thought and has problems, I'm sure. It is,
 FV> however, a possible way to make things work with the SLF Nodelist,
 FV> I think.

all it seems to do is save a few characters. and there's easier ways to
save charcters...

 -=> Bye <=-

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