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to: BJRN FELTEN
from: PAUL QUINN
date: 2019-12-07 07:52:00
subject: 2019 FTSC Standing Member

Hi! Björn,

On 12/07/2019 03:54 AM, you wrote:

 WD>>> * Introducing INA against the express wishes of Michiel

 O>> I'm not sure why it was introduced at the time. Maybe there were good
 O>> reason, but nowadays it's mostly useless and could be deprecated for
 O>> simplification.

 BF>     It was a stupid and worthless flag idea from day one. We still don't
 BF> know of any FTN software that makes any use of it, so it should never
 BF> have been included in FTS-5001.

The most advanced piece of FTN software, Radius, used to use it.  It is a
belief of mine -only- that the follow-on project, Taurus, would also.

Cheers,
Paul.

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