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|    mark lewis to Kees van Eeten    |
|    Makenl and bad segments...    |
|    02 Jan 15 16:40:42    |
       On Fri, 02 Jan 2015, Kees van Eeten wrote to Benny Pedersen:               KvE> The general reaction to inclusion is, that a higher level C        KvE> should not make any changes to the segments offered for        KvE> inclusion.               KvE> In a way this makes sense. The lower level C knows, that he        KvE> submits a segment with errors, or ignores the results of the        KvE> testrun, that is available to him.               errrmmm... there are/were many *Cs that manually maintained their segments in       a plain old text editor with no assistance from any software... there is no       guarrantee that they had any sort of ""testrun"" or "validation" of their       segment other than that returned by the next *C up the chain... those *Cs       should be able to edit the submitted segment to fix it so as to ensure that       the net or region covered by the broken segment is not left out of their       segment being passed on upstream...              let's not fall into the fallacy that everyone can even run makenl or any other       nodelist tool or that they even have the desire to do so...              )\/(ark               * Origin: (1:3634/12)    |
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