Subj : perl files for fidonet
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Thu Jun 21 2001 11:55 pm

Hi Maurice.

20-Jun-01 17:12:40, Maurice Kinal wrote to Jasen Betts


 MK> Hey Jasen!

 MK> Jun 20 07:08 01, Jasen Betts wrote to Maurice Kinal:

  >> That's the fault of your software, not the format itself. It
  >> should be possible for it to skip the damaged message and keep
  >> going.

 MK> Should doesn't help much but you're right that it should.

  >> A little binary header with routing info then A bunch of messages
  >> separeated by null bytes, about as good as it could be without
  >> adding error corretion overhead.

 MK> Also extremely limited as far as addressing goes.  Why the integer
 MK> values with no rhyme or reason wrt ordering

That's true, hence the invention of kludges. (which as the name suggsts are
a bad but workable solution to a yucky problem) It might have been a better
move to go plaintext all the way (like email), I guess the designers
thought that could slow things down too much, or lead to incompatible
software, y2k problems, etc...

  >> pick an error resistant archive format (jar, rar, etc)

 MK> It isn't up to me alone.  I'd choose tar/gzip.  What's the odds
 MK> that I will be in step with that choice

If you're a point you only have to convince one other person to pack your
packets that way.

 -=> Bye <=-

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