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to: Maurice Kinal
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2019-04-03 18:06:52
subject: Re: a sense of belonging

Hi Maurice,

On 2019-04-03 15:40:36, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> 2 Different node/point numbers?

 MK> Why not?  As far as I can tell there could be 65536 different node/point
 MK> numbers if the MSGID were to use them for different processes and/or users
 MK> while the Origin only uses the actual address of the node wrt the nodelist.
 MK> I don't see where that breaks with current standards.  If it does please
 MK> feel free to illuminate.

I just don't think it's good practice. It's confusing to both humans and
software. For instance if someone wants to send a reply by netmail which of
the two should be used?

 MK> Speaking of standards, what about "CHRS: UTF-8 2"?  Even
in the pure
 MK> fantasy land of fts-5003.001 that appears to be bogus.  :-)

Yeah, I know, it's been pointed out to me before. I use a more or less
default golded configuration regarding charsets. I'll have to look into
this to fix it somewhere. But I don't care too much, most of my messages
just contain plain ascii, so there's nothing to translate for software on
receivers systems anyway that need the CHRS kludge for this.

Bye, Wilfred.

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