On 2018 Jun 19 21:05:22, you wrote to All:

 ON>    Instead of using -Unpublished- for the phone field for a lot of the
 ON> unlist or TCP based systems, and in other zones we are using 000-0-0-0-0,
 ON> why not use 000-0-0-0-0 for both 000-0-0-0-0 and -Unpublished-?

Z1 does... other zones might...

 ON> Since we (Fido) have always been about optmization and small as
 ON> possible node list lines ... this proposal would save us 2 bytes on
 ON> every line currently yielding -Unpublished-. This weeks node list has
 ON> 1024 -Unpublished- enrties, this switch would literally shrink the
 ON> uncompressed nodelist by 2kb.

no one worries about the nodelist size any more because there is little to no
cost to sent it and drive space is exceedingly cheap...

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