Subj : fastlst status?
To   : Kai Richter
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Sun Jul 02 2023 10:04 am

Hello Kai,

Sunday July 02 2023, Kai Richter wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 KR>>> What is the actual status of fastlst?

 MD>> I don't see any reason to support it.

 KR> How about "i have an existing setup and i'm lazy to configure another
 KR> tool"?

Laziness is sacred. How about "I'm lazy to support another tool"? :-)

 KR>>> I'm not sure if i need a V7 nodelist but a tool for diff
 KR>>> handling should be minimum.

 MD>> Why do you need diffs?

 KR> Why do i need fidonet? Diffs are the traditional way of nodelist
 KR> distribution. And diffs are documents of history, who joined and who
 KR> left fidonet.

That's right. So, you may receive diffs and store them for history. And at the same time you may use a full nodelist, since that does not require to build full nodelist from the previous nodelist and a diff. Such a build is potentially error-prone if a nodelist or a diff is missing.

Michael

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