ON> I am not sure whom I should be addressing with this ON> suggestion/question. Nick sent me here, so my question:
ON> Instead of using -Unpublished- for the phone field for a lot of the ON> unlist or TCP based systems, and in other zones we are using ON> 000-0-0-0-0, why not use 000-0-0-0-0 for both 000-0-0-0-0 and ON> -Unpublished-? Since we (Fido) have always been about optmization and ON> small as possible node list lines ... this proposal would save us 2 ON> bytes on every line currently yielding -Unpublished-. This weeks node ON> list has 1024 -Unpublished- enrties, this switch would literally shrink ON> the uncompressed nodelist by 2kb.
You propose to:
- potentially break existing software for the few remaining dialup nodes - to save a measly 2 KB (1%) of a 154 KB nodelist - of a nodelist that is naturally shrinking anyway (50 fewer FidoNet nodes since January) - for network where the cost of data has mostly been unimportant for more than 15 years
I think you may be barking up the wrong tree here.
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