[nos-bbs] netrom alias - discussion on uppercase / lowercase

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especially do not force in uper case, the legislation of some countries 
such as Belgium banned the connection on the alias and therefore illegal
forcing some node in upper case would outlaw

Xnet supports both easily
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André OPN4HU
Xnet node ON4HU-4


Le 31/08/11 07:37, Bob Tenty a écrit :
> That it is becoming a mess :=)
>
> Personally I should leave the Alias as is and not force it to uppercase.
>
> I see other odd behaviour, like in Xnet I can use the dash as character
> (in the Alias) but some packet software can't handle this.
>
> In those cases the call + SSID is printed without the alias in their 
> netrom list.
>
>
>
> 73, Bob VE3TOK
>
> On 11-08-29 03:28 PM, Maiko Langelaar wrote:
>>
>> I see alot of lower case netrom ALIAS values, mostly from Xnet routers.
>>
>> My understanding is that the ALIAS is supposed to be UPPERCASE.
>>
>> The *specs* are telling me I should have JNOS force these to uppercase
>> before I add them to my JNOS node tables. But then if I broadcast my 
>> nodes
>> to others, what is the consequence of this ?
>>
>> Any comments or suggestions ?
>>
>> Maiko Langelaar / VE4KLM
>>
>>
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