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to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: KEES VAN EETEN
date: 2018-02-05 23:06:00
subject: File names for Fnews

Hello Michiel!

05 Feb 18 21:23, you wrote to Björn Felten:

 MvdV> FILE_ID.DIZ? BBS? Wazethat? :)

 MvdV> When was the last time you used that _i--- shaped piece of hardware to
 MvdV> manually cranck your car into starting? Sometimes progress means dumping
 MvdV> no more needed old stuff. Many Fidonet related files are distributed
 MvdV> without FILE_ID.DIZ. The nodelist, the nodediffs, the FTSC related
 MvdV> files... I never hear complaints. Apparently Fidonet works well without
 MvdV> it. The FTSC never bothered to document it, so it must not be all that
 MvdV> critical. The Fidonews file is pretty self descriptive anyway.

 I think that in some zones where there is a different appreciation for
 BBS's The additional information file is packed with nodelist or Nodediffs.

 If we only support features that are used by a mojority of sysops, we can
 just as well close Fidonet right away.

Kees

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