Hello Carol.

10 Nov 02 08:54, you wrote to Michael Grant:

 MG>> FTSC may fancy itself some sort of "authority" based
on some perceived
 MG>> techno-geeky intellectual hierarchy (read bovine scatology) expressed
 MG>> through the FTSC nomination and election process, but in reality they
 MG>> are far less important in the decision making process than the Coordin
 MG>> or even the end nodes, if enough of them protest loudly enough for a c

 CS> Grin, they just document.  Thats all.

Incorrect.

With proposals they document, when it comes to defining flags for the
nodelist that is exactly what they do.

From FTS-5000

2. Purpose
----------

  Along with the companion technical standard (FTS-5001) this document
  defines the format and content of the nodelist for the FidoNet
  International Hobby Network. The FTS-5001 is seperated into two
  parts - the first part is a listing of authorized flags and the
  second part is a registry of userflags. The registry is used to
  prevent a userflag from being used for more than one meaning. The
  registry is maintained by the Fidonet Technical Standards Committee
  Working Group D (the Nodelist).

"Defines" not "current practice", "most
used", or "documented proposal".
These documents are official and backed up as such by Policy 4.

Admittedly they do have anbiguity in their documents, but this does not make
them any less official.

The original purpose of the FTSC was to define the nodelist standard.

Cheers,
                Rick

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