>> We might get the answer in just a few weeks, now that all of us *Cs
>> have the proper tool available. Then the sysops could chose what character
>> encoding they prefer, rather than have a specific ditto forced upon them
>> from above.

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

Nor do I.

> Is it your expectation, that the ZC will accept nay 8 bit encoding, or is
> everybody going to build his own Nodelist, with just HIS name spelled in
> some weird encoding.

Good point.

> Whatever superduper environment you use, the more people you want to
> communicate with, the more you have to step down to a common denominator.
> For Fidonet that is ASCII. Others cannot read your message, if you offer
> your opinions in an encoding they cannot decypher. They will not go out
> of their way to adapt to your encoding, even for people with your stature.

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

I am 100% agreeing with you Kees. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Torbjorn/Torbjoern/Torbjørn :-)

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