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FTSC FIDONET TECHNICAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE
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Publication: FSP-1003
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Revision: 1
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Title: Suggested use of Nodelist Fields
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Author: Lee Kindness
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Revision Date: 15 May 1997
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Expiry Date: 15 May 1999
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Contents:
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1. Field 3, Node Name
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2. Field 4, Location
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3. Field 5, Sysop Name
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Status of this document
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This document is a Fidonet Standards Proposal (FSP).
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This document specifies an optional Fidonet standard protocol for
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the Fidonet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
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improvements.
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This document is released to the public domain, and may be used,
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copied or modified for any purpose whatever.
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Introduction
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This document makes recommendations on the use of various fields in
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the distribution nodelist (St. Louis nodelist format", fts-0005).
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Naturally it is the choice of the *C's if they want to use them.
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Remember the fts-0005 requirements should still be adhered to.
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1. Field 3, Node Name
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The node name field should be no more than 20 characters long. For
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comparison in nodelist.122'1997 the minimum entry was 1, maximum 51!
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and the average was 14.
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For zone entries this field should contain a description of the
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zones area, (eg North America, Europe). For region entries it should
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contain the country/state, for host entries the local area name and
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for hub entries a description of the area the hub serves.
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2. Field 4, Location
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This field contains the location of the node. It should usually be
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expressed as the primary local location (town, suburb, city, etc.)
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plus an identifier of the regional geopolitical administrative
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district (state, province, department, county, etc.). Wherever
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possible, standard postal abbreviations for the major regional
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district should be used (IL, BC, NSW, UK, etc.).
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For zone and region entries this field should also have the julian
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day of segment creation appended to it (eg "Somearea_(122)") to aid
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checks on the validity of the nodelist.
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3. Field 5, Sysop Name
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This field contains the name of the system operator. Entries such as
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"postmaster" and "uucp" should not be used. Aliases should not be
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permitted in this field (as they give Fidonet a 'less respectable'
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image).
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A. Author contact data
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Lee Kindness
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Fidonet: n/a
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E-mail: wangi@earthling.net
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WWW: http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html
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B. History
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Rev.1, 971101: First release as FSP, based on the Fidonews 14/20
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article. Transformed into FSP document by Odinn
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Sorensen.
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