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Skriven 2009-11-26 00:51:08 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: INA flag
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Hello Janis,

On Tuesday November 24 2009 10:26, you wrote to me:

 >> Either you are either trying to rewrite history or you are just
 >> making it up o your memory is playing tricks on you. Whatever it, is
 >> you are verifiably wrong when you claim that it was not you but Ward
 >> who first introduced the INA flag to the nodelist.

 JK> Are you that dense, or just feeling ornery this morning?

Questioning my intelligence or my mood does not alter the verifiable facts.

That is the beauty of the scientific method. It does not matter who makes the
statement: an idiot or a genius. Verifiable facts remain verifiable facts.

 JK> Ward is NOT the one that "introduced" INA: to the nodelist,

That is what I wrote didn't I?

You are pulling a "Roy Witt" on me. Saying the same as I did in diffrent words
and then make it look like I said the opposite.

 JK> THAT was Ross Cassell with MY permission as a test flag due to
 JK> TECHNICAL problems in R18 with a node there.

I TOLD you the problem was not technical.

 JK> Ward is the first ZC that APPROVED INA: for nodelist use in his ZONE
 JK> when he saw so many in R50 were using it (there were probably others
 JK> in Z2 as well, that I do not remember offhand).

No, as Ward already pointed out, that is not possible. A flag can not be used
in Z2 UNTIL AFTER it has been entered in de Z2 ERRFLAGS config file. So it was
AFTER AUg 31, 2005 that the flag was used in Z2.

 JK> Once again, in case it is not clear:  INA: was an experimental flag in
 JK> Zone 1 from 2002 on, allowed with permission of the Z1C.  I did extend
 JK> it's "experimental" use after the initial "test" period ran out.

Semantics. The FTSC has documented two type of flags: Regular flags and user
flags. You allowed INA as a regular flag with nodelist.319 of 2002. Ward
allowed it almost three years later on Aug 31, 2005.

Technically there is no such thing as a test flag. Software can not see the
difference between a test flag and a regular flag. You are just laying a smoke
screen to obfusciate the fact hat you were 180 degrees wrong when you wrote:

 JK> It was _Ward_ who first decided to add it to his nodelist IIRC. It
 JK> certainly wasn't me, though I am very glad that he did.


Cheers, Michiel

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