Sun 2002-11-10 17:08, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> If there are rules in the spec, they can't be ignored!

 > Uh, why are we here?  Coz everyone's ignoring the nodelist specs and 
 > putting shit everywhere under all manner of status flags (Pvt, Hold and 
 > whatnot).

 ac>> You just can't do that. ;-)

 > They can and will.. mark my words 

Well, I'm not saying they won't.  Nothing will stop people doing incorrect
things.  The point is the spec won't allow them to and still be conformant.

In terms of FTS-5/5000/5001, what there really needs to be is another
document listing all the things you specifically can't do in the nodelist,
and why, and/or what software will break if you do, because it seems fairly
obvious that people don't want to stop using software from 10+ years ago,
eg. MAKENL.

 ac>> I don't know what alternate use people would use for the Uplink

 > They can use it as their echomail route instead of Host route.  It's 
 > more likely that you may think...

Yeah, OK.  Just using Parent instead of Uplink should stop any confusion
there.  Hopefully!

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