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to: Jasen Betts
from: andrew clarke
date: 2002-11-06 08:01:54
subject: human-readable nodelist format

Sun 2002-11-03 13:09, Jasen Betts (3:640/531.42) wrote to Scott Little:

 SL>> There should be no technical limit to the number of peers allowed,

 > yeah, "technical" limits are a result of lazy programmers.
 > software with technical limits often has other shortcomings,

I think you mean "artificially-imposed" limits.  I'd be a bit
careful to generalise though.  Sometimes these limits are necessary because
they make software design too complex or impractical without them.  This
was particularly true in the DOS days.  It's still relevant now though, eg.
 a limit of 4,294,967,295 messages per messagebase file is still a limit,
even if you can effectively treat it as if there were no limit.

(I agree with Scott btw. :-)

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