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echo: fidopols
to: Michiel van der Vlist
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2002-11-03 12:55:34
subject: NodelistGuide or FAQ

Hello Michiel.

02 Nov 02 12:08, you wrote to Michael Grant:

 MV>>> One can not make a universal nodelist compiler that will work
 MV>>> for /everyone/. There is just too much stuff around. Not every
 MV>>> mailer uses the V7 standard you know. As a programmer and an
 MV>>> expert I tell you that what you want is not possible.

 MG>> What's so difficult?

 MV> Too much unknown abandonware around.

So we need a scheme that will give the users of such a "big" incentive to 
"upgrade", and no, I don't mean putting them against the wall and saying, 
upgrade or.....

Russell

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