the INFO.TXT thing is a bit of a hack really.
Didn't you invent the INFO.TXT idea back around 2009 or so? I could swear
it was your idea, and Zane Healy had a WWW real time listing of active nodes
on
avanthar.com back then. Somebody else was doing a map, but I can't
remember who.
I'm sure you know that every couple of years somebody comes up with a
grand scheme to map and index HECnet. It goes for a while and then looses
steam, and then a couple of years later somebody re-invents the idea over
again.
Bob