Thomas Seeling wrote in a message to Tom Torfs:

 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.

You lost me there. What do you mean by "a trivial answer" ?
 
 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
 TS> to define.

I did get that point. I replied to your statement that the storage format
for messages is of no interest to anyone, which seemed to imply it needn't
be standardized. True, the *.MSG storage format in FTS-1 is outdated, but
that doesn't mean that storage format standardization in general is
useless. I would agree that it should probably be kept separate from the
communication protocols, however.

greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs{at}village.uunet.be

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