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to: GERRIT KUEHN
from: ALEXEY VISSARIONOV
date: 2018-11-11 03:00:00
subject: Nodelist history

Good ${greeting_time}, Gerrit!

09 Nov 2018 18:08:56, you wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> Incidentally it occurs to me that conceivably a version control web
 ac>> site like GitHub or similar could be used to host every FidoNet
 ac>> nodelist ever issued, where diffs could easily be displayed between
 ac>> nodelists.
 GK> You could easily replace the whole distribution and update mechanism
 GK> that way and have lists available near real-time almost everywhere.
 GK> I proposed that a couple of times over the last months (if not
 GK> years)... response was zilch so far.

Possibly `man git-format-patch` is what really may be used for this purpose.


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