TS> If Z2C upheld Fido standards, nodes would be 
 TS> excomm'd for that garbage.
 TS> Since you're a Point, that would mean your Boss node.
 JK> Don't blame him, blame his boss who hasn't told him 
 JK> not to use the cyrillic
 JK> char-set in international echos. In fatc, chances are 
 JK> that he doesn't even speak english.
Both are responsible.  The Boss shouldn't be offering access to more than a
very few Z1 echos to users who cannot use English, the official language of
Fidonet, nor ASCII in places FTSC standards call for it as non-optional.  He
should not be connecting ANY Points not able to stick to ASCII (which is 7 
it
only) in technically required elements of messages.  
 JK> And, I can assure you, Zone 2 does uphold it's and Fido's standards.
That's simply not true, unless you mean selectively only, while intentionally
violating others.  Z2C's refusal to follow a number of nodelist and message
standards is one of the key reasons there have been so many problems 
maintaining
a Fido IC.  The majority of nodelisted Z2 nodes have defective listings under
most recent approved international Fido standards.  
Terry
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