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to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: AUGUST ABOLINS
date: 2020-06-09 09:45:00
subject: IBM437 to IBMPC

Hello Michiel!

** On Tuesday 09.06.20 - 08:21, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> X-XP-Charset: IBM437
 AA>> My original message had IBM437.

 MvdV> Hmmm... that is an unknown identifier in Fidonet.

Hmmm..  Then FTSC should update their documentation of common terms and  
practices out in the real world.  LOL

  https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/charsets/IBM437
  https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml

OpenXP shouldn't be forced to downgrade to an antiquated text found in  
FTS-5009.


 AA>> But, it arrived bearing an IBMPC kludge on the local NNTP side.  :(

 AA>> So, it appears that it left the bossnode with the IBMPC kludge as
 AA>> well. :(

 MvdV> So it would seem that entering messages via an NNTP gateway is buggy...

Yes.. something a little strange is happening there!  LOL


  ../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.44
* Origin: This is a test of the Emergency Tagline System (2:221/1.58)

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