Tony Langdon : August Abolins wrote:

Offline readers for points have included NL compilation and lookup.

But that's not everyone's situation. You can't assume the user has ready access to nodelist data. Some do, some don't.

The offline QWK readers and similar might not. But the "complete" Frondoor/APX supported netmail (thus NL support), SemPoint, WinPoint.. and so on. The NL it seems is an essential part for connectivity.

If you are thinking of users at the terminal level (visiting a telnet bbs for example) and conducting echomail activity that way, then yes, the need for a NL or its existence is not obvious. But *could* be!

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On 03-20-19 06:33, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Tony Langdon : August Abolins wrote:

Offline readers for points have included NL compilation and lookup.

But that's not everyone's situation. You can't assume the user has ready access to nodelist data. Some do, some don't.

The offline QWK readers and similar might not. But the "complete" Frondoor/APX supported netmail (thus NL support), SemPoint, WinPoint..
and so on. The NL it seems is an essential part for connectivity.

But my point still stands, Ready nodelist availability for users an invalid assumption, no matter how you slice and dice it. :)



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