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On 06 Dec 18  21:10:45, Michiel Van Der Vlist said the following to Markus Res

MV>  MR> The frustating thing is that it's hard for sortware developers to know
MV>  MR> about undocumented features.
MV> 
MV> It is not just hard, it is impossible to keep up with all the exceptions an
MV> upgrade the software if there is no limit imposed on it.

Well now, hopefully you can see things from my perspective.

You are quick to quote the missing REPLY (which I explained logically) and the
CHRS and PID kludges. You sure do love posting about IPV6, so I assume from an
emotional perspective that the topic "means something" to you. 

So lets try it from this angle.

If I am not made aware that I am in violation of some standard, because my
software does not have the CHRS or PID kludge, because it has not been made 
open-source or the Fido portion maintained for decades... really am I to blame
for that? Am I deserving of flames, attacks from URL-happy Russian Sysops?

Let me rephrase - a Sysop who ran a popular BBS in 1993-1995 who decides to 
restore from backup his working system, gets on Fido, then discovers his
software is in violation of some missing kludge, gets flamed, etc, by others,
do you think thats fair for someone participating in a hobby they once loved
dearly?

What should they do? Be forced to dump it, screw it, fuck it, go with Mystic 
or Synchronet? "Can't drive the Ford model-T on a modern road" to badly 
paraphrase what you said to me before?

What do I tell Toronto-area Sysops who ask me about their Apple and Commodore 
BBS's they want to fire up again? Sorry you can't, because your system does 
not adhear to some (IMO) foolish/lazy/ignorant MSGID/REPLY kludge?

I thought that kind of snobbery/arrogance was what you get with the Internet?

Nick

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