mark lewis -> David Drummond wrote:
 DD>> Storing IP numbers in the phone number field is not an
 DD>> "advancement of the network" when there are so many other
 DD>> places to place the IP number that don't "break" anything.

 ml> right... it is well known that other things do get broken... for
 ml> instance, software that creates a BBS list from the nodelist...

Your software baulks at having the IP attached to the IBN flag? Time to get
new software perhaps.

Besides, the nodelist is *not* intended as a method for finding BBSs, it is
intended as a method of finding mailers...

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regards

David

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