Re: Re: slightly different format
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to Maurice Kinal on Tue Nov 17 2020 09:38 am

 > Hi Maurice,
 > 
 > On 2020-11-16 13:28:16, you wrote to me:
 > 
 >  WvV>> That was the case untill last year, when the new chairman forgot
 >  WvV>> about it, and it was moved up a couple of months.
 > 
 >  MK> I recall that.  Seems an odd thing for the chairman to forget about.
 > 
 > He was new to the job. And the FTSC is probably not very active, since the
 > previous chairman left. But I don't really know, except I see no updated or 
 > documents apear, so I could be wrong...
 > 
 >  MK> We'll see when it comes up and in the meantime I'll think about it.
 >  MK> Thank you for your encouragment although I have to wonder if I am not
 >  MK> stepping into something that would be best to leave alone.  It might
 >  MK> turn out I have more impact - if indeed I have ever had any impact -
 >  MK> as an outsider to the FTSC.  From this perspective it doesn't appear
 >  MK> being an FTSC member has any real influence over so-called standards.
 > 
 >  MK> Am I missing something?
 > 
 > The FTSC is about documenting current practise. So if you think you can chan
 > the standards to include general internet practise, your in the wrong place.
 > You're probably better of in for instance NET_DEV and try to convince other
 > developers to change their products to do so. But that can only be done in a
 > backwards compatible way, because of all the legacy software that is still i
 > use but can't be changed, because the developers left fidonet (a long time
 > ago).
 > 
 > And bitching about it in ASIAN_LINK has very little to no effect. ;)
 > 
 > Bye, Wilfred.
 > 

Grin, I've not seen the next election either but shouldn't be far off.

  xxcarol

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