MT>> FTS-1 is not needed anymore.
 PW> It is needed, as the lowest common denominator. Dale suggested
 PW> moving to EMSI - this would instantly put systems which don't support EMSI
 PW> in violation of standards. Are either of you planning to rewrite
 PW> those products to comply?
Since we would not get te sources this is out of questions, but are there a
considerable ammount of fido-system who does not have EMSI capabilities?
What do you say about that ip-nodes which only speak the binkd protocol? 

 PW> How about connections which aren't good enough to support EMSI
 PW> handshaking? 
I doubt that they are good enough for fts-1. And does anybody use modems
without a recovery protocol, so no errors creep in the comunications. Also
the telephone lines are quite good nowadays.

 PW> Making EMSI the preferred protocol I wouldn't mind, but removing
 PW> FTS-1 is a big mistake.
This would be a compromiss i could defend.

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