Subj : fastlst status?
To   : Michael Dukelsky
From : Kai Richter
Date : Sun Jul 02 2023 04:12 pm

Hello Michael!

02 Jul 23, Michael Dukelsky wrote to Kai Richter:

 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
 KR>> another tool"?

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

I'm not sure. Sometimes i wished i could get rid of my laziness. But you are perfect fine. I understood above "I don't see any reason for anyone to support it." and i had/have no intention to motivate you or anyone to support fastlst. Especially for the FreeBSD platform.

 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
 KR>> who left fidonet.

 MD> That's right. So, you may receive diffs and store them for history.
 MD> And at the same time you may use a full nodelist, since that does not
 MD> require to build full nodelist from the previous nodelist and a diff.

It would work but it's against my line ot thought. Why should i buy 60 pots when one pot will do it's job perfectly? Use of 60 times more resources for a job is a sign of the global throw-away society. I know - the resources required to maintain fastlst would outnumber the savings of the reduced transportation resources. The sad thing is i couldn't learn C languages within my remaining lifetime. But even with laziness there is progress. Slow, but

% ./nlupd
nlupdate/fbsd 1.9 2023-02-24
Could not find Config-file

Ooops? I said slow. ;-)

Regards

Kai

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