Subj : Re: Directly include binary data in messages
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Tim Schattkowsky
Date : Sun Feb 27 2022 17:24:25

//Hello Kees,//

on *24.02.22* at *14:41:38* You wrote in Area *FTSC_PUBLIC*
to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"Directly include binary data in messages"*.

 KvE> Hello Tim!

 KvE> 24 Feb 22 15:19, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 TS>> For private messages, there is little sense in competing with email.
 TS>> Surely fidonet netmail is not going to replace email during the next 5
 TS>> years. However, it makes a lot of sense to provide comparable
 TS>> capabilities just to enable users to make consistent use of netmail and
 TS>> echomail while having basic capabilities that are just not worse than
 TS>> email 20 years ago. Currently thats not remotely the case.

 KvE> E-mail has not changed either in te last 20 years. The only thing that
 KvE> has changed are the user clients that can now display mime encapsulated
 KvE> messages.

 KvE> Designing a different way of encapsulation for fidonet is hardly
 KvE> productive. Mime encapsulation is not hostile to the content section of
 KvE> fidonet messages.

 KvE> No changes have to have to be made to Fidonet. The only changes are at
 KvE> the presentation layer, wich is not subject to fidonet standards.

 KvE> Kees

 KvE> --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5--b20180707
 KvE>  * Origin: As for me, all I know is that, I know nothing. (2:280/5003.4)

Regards,
Tim

--- WinPoint 401.1
 * Origin: Original WinPoint Origin! (2:240/1120.29)

.