Good ${greeting_time}, Bj”rn!

06 Dec 2019 18:54:20, you wrote to Oli:

 WD>>> * Introducing INA against the express wishes of Michiel
 O>> I'm not sure why it was introduced at the time. Maybe there
 O>> were good reason, but nowadays it's mostly useless and could
 O>> be deprecated for simplification.
 BF> It was a stupid and worthless flag idea from day one. We still
 BF> don't know of any FTN software that makes any use of it,

binkd.
Or, more exactly, its' nodelist parser module (written in perl).

 BF> so it should never have been included in FTS-5001.

FOAD.

% egrep -c ',IBN' ~/fido/etc/nodelist.ndl
1080
% egrep -v ,INA: ~/fido/etc/nodelist.ndl | egrep -c ',IBN'
168
% echo 1080-168 | bc
912

That means, out of all nodes with declared binkp capability:
* 912 do use INA and
* 168 don't.


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