Subj : perl before swine
To   : mark lewis
From : tony summerfelt
Date : Sun Mar 27 2005 12:54 pm

 # On Sat, Mar 26/05 at 12:07 PM, mark lewis wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> this far more useable.  Whoever invented this messaging
 MK>> structure ought to be ashamed.

 ml> you need to stop and realise/remember that the format is taken from

also remember that 20 years down the road hindsite is 20/20 :)

take a look at the smtp format. worked great back then, but now spammers 
exploit the format for their own ends...

for all the talk about reinvening the ftn, nobody has done it AND started using 
it...

and the tools needed to be written. back then turbo pascal and qb were the 
easiest languages to learn and write in. an ftn tool in tp, could be written 
and released in a day. once a particular piece of software takes a foothold it 
stays...

ftn technology works and it's here to stay...and because it was all done on dos 
systems it's very small setup, an entire bbs setup can be done in well under 10 
megs.


i think two of the 'newest' entries in ftn technology were jam format and binkd 
protocol...i didn't think either of those would take off...


and of course the main reason nothing new will be done on the ftn tech front is 
because (wait for it carl). fidonet is dead. it took WAY too long to adapt/move 
to the internet and it suffered because of it. mainly because of the ego's 
involved (if i had to take a wild guess)



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