Salut Terry,
 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.
 TS> Both are responsible.  The Boss shouldn't be offering access to more 
than a
 TS> very few Z1 echos to users who cannot use English, the official language 
of
 TS> Fidonet, nor ASCII in places FTSC standards call for it as non-optional. 
 He
 TS> should not be connecting ANY Points not able to stick to ASCII (which is 
7 bit
 TS> only) in technically required elements of messages.
I agree with the first point, but not with the second.
 JK>> And, I can assure you, Zone 2 does uphold it's and Fido's standards.
 TS> That's simply not true, unless you mean selectively only, while 
intentionally
 TS> violating others.  Z2C's refusal to follow a number of nodelist and 
message
 TS> standards is one of the key reasons there have been so many problems
 TS> maintaining a Fido IC.  The majority of nodelisted Z2 nodes have 
defective
 TS> listings under most recent approved international Fido standards.
That's bullshit.
But it's offtopic here. If you want to discuss this in detail, please contact 
me via netmail.
bye ....
         Joe
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