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to: andrew clarke
from: Rick Van Ruth
date: 2002-11-10 09:38:38
subject: human-readable nodelist format

Hello andrew.

10 Nov 02 01:42, you wrote to Scott Little:

 >> Don't get too carried away with human readability - it's primary
 >> function is for mailers and other programs, not sysops.  If it's too
 >> difficult to parse/process it's useless.

 ac> I can't decide whether you're saying it's too difficult to parse or not.
 ac> Did you look at the source code I wrote?  (Anyone?)

 ac> http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet/nodelist/

I had a look at the nodelist it generated, but sorry I don't agree with the
fields, but then I guess you haven't yet decided the final format.

Cheers,
                Rick

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