From: nospam.g00r00@f215.n129.z1.fidonet.org   
      
    W4> Good afternoon all.  I was wondering where FTN style nodelists should go   
    W4> within Mystic directory and how Mystic uses them (ie do they need to be   
    W4> compiled, etc)?   
      
   Mystic does not require compiled nodelists, it parses the raw nodelist without   
   compilation.   
      
   The raw combined nodelists are stored in the DATA directory as nodelist.txt.   
      
   Mystic's MUTIL can be configured to point to various directories where you have   
   nodelists stored and calculate the latest nodelist for each networt and combine   
   + copy them into nodelist.txt in your data folder.  You could also do this   
   manually by simply copy a full FidoNet nodelist as nodelist.txt in your DATA   
   directory (if you only have Fido, or using copy file+file if you have more).   
      
   Nodelists are used in a few ways.  There is a nodelist brower where you can   
   query the data in the nodelists to search for BBS names, systems, addresses,   
   and do things like list all systems in a zone, net or node.   
      
   You can optionally force Netmail messages to require the address the user sends   
   to is found in the nodelist data.   
      
   And then also the MIS client/server can use the nodelist to send mail or poll   
   mail directly from addresses that are not configured in your echomail nodes.   
      
   ... No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.   
      
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