TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: fidopols
to: Rick Van Ruth
from: Carol Shenkenberger
date: 2002-11-11 10:08:02
subject: Re: NodelistGuide or FAQ

*** Quoting Rick Van Ruth from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


 CS> Yes but based on standards in effect already.

RVR> Isn't that what started all this? How *C's are ignoring those standard
RVR> stupid things like 1-000-000-000 (or 000-000-000-000) are used for pho
RVR> number fields? How they allow IBN and other such flags without includi
RVR> FQDN or IP address?

Yes, but it's not so much the fault of the documenters on that one as the
*C's ¨not following it correctly.

RVR> things like " CS> Yes but based on standards in effect
already." above

RVR> How can you agree with the authorised standards on one hand and also a
RVR> with whatever a *C's whim is on the other?

I dont agree with the whims at all.  They need to be fixed.  I'm happy to
help ¨any who are having trouble figuring out a correct listing too
.
                                       xxcarol

--- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4
* Origin: SHENK'S EXPRESS, Sasebo Japan 0956-25-2561 (6:757/1)
SEEN-BY: 106/2000 120/544 123/500 140/1 633/260 262 267 270 285 634/383
SEEN-BY: 640/954 654/0 690/682 757/1 771/4020 774/605 2432/200 7105/1
@PATH: 757/1 140/1 106/2000 123/500 774/605 633/260 285

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.