ml>>> this positional distinction seems to be missed by many and the INA ml>>> flag is wasted as it doesn't get followed by other flags indicating ml>>> the capabilities available for the connection it is representing... ml>>> if the above example does not contain an IP or FQDN in a recognized ml>>> position before the IBN, then connecting systems will likely be ml>>> attempting the f.n.z conversion and lookup to find the proper IP or ml>>> FQDN to connect to for the IBN connection... AV>> The positional distinction means your own mental disability. ml> this is not an appropraite comment, alexey...
Really? It looks like a real reason of your stupidity, which you show up for many years...
AV>> Other people, including most developers, have enough mental AV>> abilities to parse the line regardless of flag order.
ml> and they fail to properly parse multiflagged entries... ml> eg: ml> ,12,some_system,some_location,a_sysop,#-###-###-####,33600,XA,V34,CM, ml> / ml> ITN,IVM, / ml> INA:site1.tld,IBN, / ml> INA:site2.tld,ITN, / ml> INA:site3.tld,IBN,ITN,IVM, / ml> PING
Obviously, they do: this line contains trivial errors.
Mark, you are FTSC member, but the only productive contribution from you in recent years was grammar corrections. When you tried to write something on technical matters, the whole discussion process stopped, because other FTSC members (at least me) have to spend a hour or two laughing at your stupidity. And all other messages from you were just off-topic.
What have you done for the Fidonet, say, in this year? Have you contributed source code to the publicly available software? Or, being the NC, attracted several new members to your net?
Nothing? What are you doing in FTSC then?
-- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-ccxxix-lxxix-xlii