ac> Incidentally it occurs to me that conceivably a version control web ac> site like GitHub or similar could be used to host every FidoNet ac> nodelist ever issued, where diffs could easily be displayed between ac> nodelists.
You could easily replace the whole distribution and update mechanism that way and have lists available near real-time almost everywhere. I proposed that a couple of times over the last months (if not years)... response was zilch so far.