Good ${greeting_time}, Stephen!

06 Feb 2016 09:16:06, you wrote to mark lewis:

 >> hehehe... it doesn't and never has... that's one of the reasons i've
 >> appeared to be ""against"" binkd's usage in FTNs... it is a raw mailer
 >> and provides  nothing else for most standard FTN operations...
 SH> To be fair, if we actually followed policy 4 and *required* FTS-0001
 SH> during ZMH, most of Fidonet would dissapear.

If you'd read it more carefully, you can notice "using the protocol defined in
the _current_ FidoNet Technical Standards Committee publication" words there.
Now look into http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-1026.001 - it says:

"This document is a Fidonet Technical Standard (FTS)"

That means, all those

gremlin@hren:~ > grep ,IBN ~/fido/etc/nodelist.ndl | wc -l
1181

nodes conform to that old requirement just fine.


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