Quoting Bill Birrell on Sat 4 Jan 2003 23:24 to Jan Vermeulen:

 >>     XML zipped nodelists are approx 30% _larger_; I do
 >> not know if this is due to the tags (which are needed
 >> in order xml will work) or to a less efficient zip
 >> library caused by those tags.

 bb>     With the present FidoNet Policy document (4.07) that is going
 bb> to be a problem. As things stand the only approvable changes are
 bb> those which reduce the size of the nodelist and therefore the cost
 bb> of distribution.

    If you aim at the second paragraph of P4, 2.1.9, you do have a point as
it is one place that points out that FidoNet is not the place to cause
undue cost to other sysops.

    Thinking of that, that is valid for any action one takes in FidoNet,
like flagging one's modem as V32B where it is V34, or the opposite.

    -==-



 bb>     Would you please confirm that I have interpreted policy
 bb> correctly? If so, it would seem that the XML nodelist would have to
 bb> be distributed by internet if at all. That brings back the ethical
 bb> problem of the dime that I mentioned earlier. I have personally
 bb> sidestepped that lemma by keeping FTS and internet entirely
 bb> separate.

 bb>     I note with approval that Scott Little takes public domain
 bb> source for granted. I hope his fellow developers share this view.

 bb> Best Wishes,
 bb> Bill.

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