Hello Lee!

19 Feb 15 04:23, you wrote to Torbjorn Mohn:

 LL> Choices.  Giving sysops choices/alternatives.
 LL> Not a mandate to do away with, but a choice or
 LL> alternative to use in place of, or in addition
 LL> to, what is.

 To know the future is to study the past. You still donot know how
 Fidonet works and how changes come about.

 Everybody in Fidonet can introduce changes into Fidonet. You introduce the
 change. If it has merit, you will get followers. If it becomes common
 practice, it is documented by the FTSC.

 It is the task of the top level to guard the integrity of the network and
 compatiblility with the past.

 LL> To me, that seems to be a most democratic way
 LL> of doing things.  Wouldn't you agree?

 What you call Democracy, is putting forward a proposal that does not have
 sufficient merit by itslef. The merits are exagerated and put in front of
 people who are offerd a hollow shell, that looks like substance. Then
 a call for popular vote is made. To have the change introduced from the
 top.

 The infrastucture of Fidonet is a technology, not a political platform.
 Progress is made by following success and ignoring failure.

 As I said before, the use of UTF-8 in the nodelist, will only apply to the
 way System and Sysopname are written. That is ego-territory.

 Focussing on using UTF-8 in the message body, can be an enrichment in
 communication.

Kees

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