On Tuesday November 26 2013 12:00, you wrote to me:
MV>> A relic from the early days of computing when resources were MV>> scarce and expensive. Barely affordable for the grunt sysop. But MV>> that was three decades ago....
AL> I quite agree. Unfortunately, it appears that this will not change AL> anytime soon.
So it appears.... :-(
MV>> Thank you for following my suggestion and so at least offering MV>> the option of breaking with this antiquated restraint.
AL> Personally, I think getting everyone upgraded to allow -Unpublished- AL> without Pvt is a higher priority,
I Agree there.
AL> but at this point maybe we will be able to allow both of these AL> options to be enabled at the same time.
I think that is asking too much. The AllowUnpub option in MakeNl_NG will soon have its 10th birthday. All ZCs have installed the new makenl in the meantime. Over a year ago! All they have to do is flip the switch. There is no need to wait for all the lower levels. MakeNl_NG will process old style nodelists received from the lower levels without problems.
I have to say as a personal note that I admire the patience of the developers. They just keep on going improving the product while the ZCs have promised to go for it, but just keep coming up with excuses to stall...
