Hello Lee!

18 Feb 15 22:09, you wrote to me:

 KvE>> I am not completely shure what you have in mind, nor that it will
 KvE>> improove communication within Fidonet.

 LL> It is time for an upgrade.  Should have been done long ago.
 LL> But now is good, as waiting longer only means more delay.

 I am looking forward to your next release of software that runs on the
 mismash of hardware used in Fidonet, that will enable this upgrade.

 LL> It matters not a witt what any ZC accepts or does not accept.
 LL> It is sysops who matter, and if this what sysops want (an upgrade)
 LL> then it will be done - regardless of what any ZC chooses to accept
 LL> or not accept.

 So why didn't it happen over all these years.

 KvE>> or is
 KvE>> everybody going to build his own Nodelist,

 LL> If that is what it takes, and is necessary, then that is what
 LL> will be done.

 I fiully agree.

 KvE>> with just HIS name spelled in some weird encoding.

 LL> Weird to you, perhaps.  But not to the one who spells his/her
 LL> own name.  ;)

 I have my gripes as well with US hegonomy in IT. In sorted computer list
 my name is sorted under V, we do use a prefix as a primary key for sorting,
 so it should be "E".

 LL> Okay, let's follow this to its logical conclusion ...

 KvE>> It is my beleif, that even if we stepped down to numerical ID's, we
 KvE>> would be better served than by using incompatible encodings as we
 KvE>> whish, or an all encompassing encoding, that the majority cannot use.

 LL> .... from now on every Fidonet sysop around the world will start
 LL> communicating in Mandarin Chinese, the most widely spoken language
 LL> in the entire world.  ;)

 I am not new to Fidonet, next week or the week after, I am listed as a
 fidonet sysop for 25 years and always a a node serving others.

 Nowadays I scruntinize the nodelist minutely, in a effort to find flaws
 in makenl.

I can ussure you that the chance that the number of sysops that will
 want to communicate in Mandarin could be 1 of you round the number to the
 first next interger. For writing Mandarin messages to yourself you do not
 need Fidonet.

 Fidonet is not the tool for Mandarin networks, and you cannot shoehorn it
 into one and certainly not this late in the life of Fidonet.

Kees

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