Subj : Unix point?
To   : Tim Schattkowsky
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Jan 14 2022 11:07:18


 On 2022 Jan 14 15:13:50, you wrote to me:

 ml>> have you looked at any of the other PKT and packed message formats?
 ml>> have you implemented any of them and gotten other developers to also
 ml>> implement them? that's what it takes to get things changed, ya
 ml>> know...

 TS> Foremost, he should try to fix things that are actually broken. CHRS
 TS> and TZUTC are not (although CHRS is slightly overengineered, but does
 TS> the job).

agreed... to a point :)

 TS> For Fido, I see other problems like privacy/security and even message
 TS> length where the existing technology really is not state of the art.

FWIW: message bodies are unbounded in FTN specs... any limitations seen are placed there by the devs of those particular tools that exhibit message length problems...

from FTS-0001...

   1. Application Layer Data Definition : a Stored Message

                               Stored Message

       Offset
      dec hex
              .-----------------------------------------------.
[...]
              +-----------------------+-----------------------+
      190  BE |                      text                     |
              ~                    unbounded                  ~
              |                 null terminated               |
              `-----------------------------------------------'
[...]
   1. Presentation Layer Data Definition : the Packed Message

[...]
                                Packed Message

       Offset
      dec hex
              .-----------------------------------------------.
[...]
              +-----------------------+-----------------------+
       34  22 |                  toUserName                   |
              ~                  max 36 bytes                 ~
              |                null terminated                |
              +-----------------------+-----------------------+
              |                 fromUserName                  |
              ~                  max 36 bytes                 ~
              |                null terminated                |
              +-----------------------+-----------------------+
              |                    subject                    |
              ~                  max 72 bytes                 ~
              |                null terminated                |
              +-----------------------+-----------------------+
              |                      text                     |
              ~                    unbounded                  ~
              |                 null terminated               |
              `-----------------------------------------------'

just saying ;)


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