-={ 2016-11-22 21:54:09.764953866-05:00 }=-

Hey mark!

 ml> one of the Type 3 packet proposals... i seem to recall also a
 ml> Type 10 proposal

I noticed all those as well as an early proposal (1990's) as to a straight
ascii pkt header but I don't recall if any 'type' was mentioned in that one.

 ml> at least one of the Type 3 proposals was all text oriented

I saw that.  What might be of greater interest would be a utf-8 one based on a
text oriented pkt header although I think it would have to be more in line with
type 2.2 simply because of the domain names which is the only data I saw that
potentially could benefit from such a thing methinks.  Same with nodelist which
has sysop and BBS names.

Definetly something to think about but in the meantime I believe the better
distraction would be to see official documentation for the currently used pkt
headers.  Of those I see type 2.2 being the best simply because of the lack of
a questionable datetime stamp.

Life is good,
Maurice

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