On 2018 Jul 03 13:25:54, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

 MV> So use this so called "advanced feature" if you must, but do NOT do it
 MV> by entering fake telephone numbers in the nodelist.

the feature is MEANT to be used from the nodelist because that is the way
things were flowing at that point in time... your own mantra of "the nodelist
is meant to help mailers talk to mailers" even supports this... especially with
the limitations of the nodelist at that point in time... i remember (and
probably still have) discussions of having multiple lines in the nodelist for
each node... they would basically operate like binkd does with its
configuration files and how it updates existing data loaded from a conf file
with new data from another conf file... it allowed for POTS, IP, and was easily
extended to support new comms methods as they arose...

if joe hadn't gotten wrapped up in the internet and making a living from it,
i'm very sure that this usage would be a lot more widespread as well as more
developed and enhanced... it would also have stopped a lot of ""debates"" like
this one... especially when certain FTSC members were stomping about it... add
that to the realization that it is the developers and the average fidonet
operators that chose which features they will use... that then determines what
processes and methods are standard practises that the FTSC documents...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... It is very much a big deal.
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