Hey Kai!

Aug 30 19:52 07, Kai Richter wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 KR> That does not matter. The local msgbase format is totally left to the 
 KR> sysop.

Understood.  How many do you think actually make a choice instead of just
going with whatever is presented to them as the only choice?

 KR> The minimum requiremt for a fidonet system is to understand pkt.

Which ones?  netmail and/or echomail?

 KR> The pkt provides the mail exchange, if you want your msgbase 
 KR> converted into another format, rescan your msgbase to pkt and re-toss 
 KR> those pkt into your new msgbase.

Yep except no need to rescan if the original is ascii based is there?  What
about utf8 or other such standards?  Is that possible with the currently
acceptable raw pkt format?

Life is good,
Maurice

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