-=> Quoting Thomas Seeling to Tom Torfs <=-

 TS> Hallo Tom,

 TS> Am 05 Mar 99 um 21:57 schrieb Tom Torfs an Thomas Seeling:
 
 TS>> For exchange with other systems you need some well-defined
 TS>> interfaces, but who cares about the internal storage type of BBS
 TS>> messages?
 
 TT> Other programs that have to share this same messagebase.

 TS> this is quite a trivial answer. Of course, if you are the developer of
 TS> a BBS system, you would take care of this issue first of all. 
 TS> You did not get the main point in my article: fts-1 is (has been 15
 TS> years ago ...) the basis for Fido, but it goes ways too far in what to
 TS> define. A communications protocol is needed, obviously :). 

Not really. FTS-1 *explicitly* states that the MSG format is included
only for reference. And it's also in there because the format of a
"packed message" in a PKT is derived from the MSG structure.

Heck, there are things FTS-1 *isn't* detailed enough about. 

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