Hello mark!

03 Apr 14 12:29, you wrote to Markus Reschke:

 ml> it is actually to spec and political documentation which talks about
 ml> using an address of -1s for requesting a new node number but most
 ml> these days are using one of z:n/999 or z:n/9999 for these purposes...

Yes.

 ml> on the other hand, i agree with you and my self-written software uses
 ml> unsigned word values for the numerical address portions... that let's
 ml> me handle 65535:65535/65535.65535 which a lot of other FTN software
 ml> can't touch since they are limites to 32767:32767/32767.32767...

 ml> but then one stops and wonders about any real need for such large
 ml> numbers in this day and age :)

 ml> then there's also the question of what happens when other systems
 ml> receive such large numbers when their mailers connect or their tossers
 ml> attempt to toss mail with such addresses :)

I know that Hudson Message Base systems can't deal with Zones over 255, as the 
Zone is stored as a byte in that message base format.

Andrew

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