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echo: ftsc_public
to: JOACHIM PROBST
from: MICHAEL DUKELSKY
date: 2020-03-24 13:37:00
subject: Messages attributes in FT

Hello Joachim,

Sunday March 22 2020, Joachim Probst wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 PQ>>> In short: the LOC attribute must be _set_ in order to send the
 PQ>>> subject message.

 MD>> It is rather strange. The Loc attribute is set on a locally
 MD>> created message to differentiate it from a message received from
 MD>> another system. So what is the point of sending a message with
 MD>> the Loc attrubute set? The system receiving the message will
 MD>> consider the message is created locally.

 JP> Interesting point: With checking the stored message format and the
 JP> attributes definition there in FTSC 0001 the Local attribute is NOT
 JP> zeroed on export.

The attributes marked with "+" in http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-0001.016 are not
zeroed before packeting. The Local attribute is not marked with "+". So it may
be zeroed. And from my point of view it must be zeroed during packeting.

 JP>  Hmm. I would have guessed, it's a local created
 JP> message, but the attribute is purged on export.

Exactly.

Michael

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