Text 1558, 45 rader
Skriven 2008-03-25 15:47:20 av Nick Andre (1:229/426)
   Kommentar till text 1504 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Re: Proper nodelist format for Internet-only nodes?
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>> for the USE of ALL mailers... one package, a very popular one, doesn't
>> even know what the nodelist is :? another one that i use is highly
> NA> ?!? Which mailer is that?
> surely you can't be that surprised and unknowing about it... you've
> worked it into your d'bridge setup stuff in recent times ;)
 
BinkD? Sorry, I'm a little absent-minded lately.
 
> and, yeah... it is considered a full fledged mailer... while it is good
> at what it does and it has provided more capabilities to fidonet, which i
> heartily applaud, it still, after all these years, doesn't comply with
> the basic fidonet standards and protocols that most all other mailers
> comply with... in fact, there was a time when it would not have been
> allowed to operate in fidonet until such time as it was fully compliant
> with existing standards and protocols... the FTSC has caused more than
> one mailer to not be able to be used until it was fixed but "today's"
> FTSC evidently doesn't care about stuff like this :?
 
Its not my place to get into FTSC politics. I'm happy when I can write code or
help someone with a protocol/proposal/whatever. I enjoy collaboration with
others and have worked with various 3rd-party developers over the years and the
general feeling I got from them about FTSC was... "don't get roped in".
 
If this is about BinkD, I'm not quite sure I understand what protocols its not
following because I haven't seen a problem with it since I've integrated it
with D'Bridge. But yes, I know it doesn't use a nodelist natively. I actually
prefer it this way when it came to integrating it with D'Bridge because I have
my product doing all the domestic-chores and then with one simple call, I then
tell BinkD what to go do with itself.
 
My product is fully compliant with all (known) specifications although this
whole nonsense with Pvt/Unpublished and the 000- prefix is a little confusing
as a programmer to work with because from what I'm seeing in this echo, its a
political issue. But I did come up with a few workarounds, internally.
 
What I can say, is that it took a LOT of work to integrate Ixx flag checking in
the nodelist compiler. And even now I'm not entirely satisfied with it because
its hard for me to deal with inconsistancies in the list itself but I do have
another service-release coming up to begin to address such problems... as
optional features of course; if its not desirable to use it.
 
*Nick*

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