Subj : Fidonet
To   : Andrew Leary
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 08:40:00

Hello Andrew!

 AL> The basic problem is that too many people see the FTSC as a political
 AL> organization/group.  It is not, and was never intended to be.  It is
 AL> supposed to be a purely technical group which documents how FidoNet
 AL> works, and the information that software developers need to create
 AL> working FidoNet compatible software. [...]

All understood.  At some point, there is a paradox. On one hand  
ftsc documents what people are doing, and on the other, it  
expects people to meet conditions for compatibility.

eg. the IBMPC 2 vs CP437 thing.

I suppose IBMPC x describes an impartial charset, whereas,  
CPxxx is the more specific and thus *more* correct?

Yet.. the use of IBMPC x doesn't really break anything.

Pershaps the ftsc approach ought to be to nudge developers to  
adopt updated nomenclature, and not make it sound like there is  
some terrible violation.

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