> Most important it's a widely used standard. All
 > developers on all platforms can handle the incoming
 > data.

    There has been much correspondence, Micael. I now uderstand why you
think this is desirable. Before saying any more, I have to be sure that
doubling the size of the nodelist without doubling the membership is
permissible, and I have doubts about that. It will become clear in a few
days, so I must counsel patience till then.

    There are also problems in introducing 'new' elements into the
nodelist, because each element has to be examined by the government of each
country to which the nodelist is distributed to ensure that it still
complies with each individual data protection statute. At some point the
sum of all the elements may become an invasion of individual privacy, too.

    We are bound by the concept of "annoying behaviour" not to do
anything which could cause the sysop of any node in the net to be arrested
or imprisoned for something outside his control.

Best Wishes,
Bill.

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