All latest RC-segments should now be sent to my system, no later than Thursday 5pm Eastern time. All of you have successfully set up secure-connections.

Some of you have already sent in segments; so no need to send again.

Everything seems to be working on the developer environment, now to move everything over to the production server. Keep in mind a ZC setup that changes-hands from Linux to Windows presents some unique challenges... a lot of careful attention to detail went into making sure (knock on wood) things work as good as I can get it.

If I do not receive a segment during processing on Thursday evening; the system will default to the last-received segment.

On Friday morning I will inspect all of the logs and deal with any problems, as I expect the "nodelist police" to be on high alert.

Also, you should be aware of the following:

- The Prolog will clearly indicate that this is a Zone 1-originating list,
to avoid unnecessary troubleshooting when someone attempts to use a DIFF
file that does not originate from Zone 1 (causing a CRC mismatch).

- The Epilog adds the European GDPR, because it has been brought to my
attention that there are many non-Zone-1 Sysops using the Zone 1 Nodelist.
By adding the GDPR, this eliminates political meddling, both here and in
"real life".

- The Day of Year is deliberately injected into sometimes-random parts of
the Prolog and Epilog, to add a level of "proof" that the system is
generating the nodelist with the most accurate information available at
the time the process runs on my production server.

- The Day Of Year is also injected into the Zone 1 Root segment for the
appropriate published list.

- The DIFF is published in your choice of three flavors... ARC, ZIP and LZH
for the Amiga crowd.

- I wrote custom software to generate the BINKD.TXT file from the Daily. I
will address this further once I am confident the nodelist is good.

Nick

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