Hi Michiel,

On 2018-02-05 13:24:10, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

 MvdV> I see that at the end of this year we will have exhausted the
 MvdV> FNEWS!nn.zzz naming convention where ! is a letter from A-Z, nn is
 MvdV> the sequence number (01-53) and zzz the compression.

 MvdV> My first suggestion for 2019 is to drop the compression and use .NWS for
 MvdV> the extension. Precompression is no longer needed in this day and age
and
 MvdV> it makes it easier te read Fidonews on-line.

This has little to do with the zip filename problem. And uncompressed FNEWS
files already have their (different) naming convention.

Some people still prefer compressed:
- Not every mail supports on the fly compression.
- Some people still use pots to connect to fidonet.
For storage it also has it's advantages:
- Less space used.
- The checksum in the zip file protects against unnoticed changes to the file.
(You can't accidentally edit the zip file for instance, which could happen when
you view the plain text file with an editor).

 MvdV> The second suggestion is to swap the sequence number and the year
 MvdV> indicator. So the first issue in 2019 will be FNEWS01A.NWS.

That would break the chronological order of the files when you list a directory
with FNEWS (zip)files alphabetically (which most filesystems do).

 MvdV> This preserves the 8x3 file format, avoids making a difference
 MvdV> between upper and lower case, avoids non alfanumeric characters (i.e
 MvdV> avoids anything that stone age software may have a problem with) and
 MvdV> it will give us another 26 years.

I suggest changing FNEWS to FNEWT. Maybe not so nice, but it will keep the
chronological order of the files, and we can use FNEWU in 26 years (if fidonet
still exists ;)), etc...

Bye, Wilfred.

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