Subj : FSP-10xx-1: BBSID Kludge Specification
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sun Dec 31 2023 21:19:49

  Re: FSP-10xx-1: BBSID Kludge Specification
  By: Michiel van der Vlist to Rob Swindell on Sun Dec 31 2023 03:22 pm

 >  RS> Yeah, I was aware. I think the BBS ID kludge could have other uses
 >  RS> too.
 >
 > Possibly. But in Fidonet we already have a way to identify a system: the
 > node number. And that is guaranteed to be globally unique within Fidonet.

What we don't have in FidoNet is a way to correlate systems with multiple FTN addresses (from multiple FTNs) as being the *same* system. That's the problem solved with the BBS ID Kludge.
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