Subj : Re: TZUTC kludge
To   : Nick Andre
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:02

Hi,

On 2015-10-01 18:55:48, Nick Andre wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen:
  about: "Re: TZUTC kludge":

 WV>>  NA> Noted.
 WV>>
 WV>> Seriously, why wouldn't you implement it?

 NA> I never said I wouldn't. I noted the request.

Afaik 'noted' is mostly used when people want to say they read it, but don't 
intend to do anything further with it... ;)

 NA> Somewhere between a magical mystical sexy fancy Linux version

Tell me about it. It's on my list to create a linux FMail, for ages. ;)

 NA> and support for Squish/JAM/Synchronet/Wildcat/Whatever I'll add
 NA> something for this. Possibly just code for the editor to add whatever
 NA> user-defined kludges defined.

It's a small request, so easy to sqeeze in there somewhere! ;)

 WV>> So I was going through some areas to look at the usage of the TZUTC
 WV>> flag, a was surprised how little it is used.

 NA> You have to remember that a lot of Fido products were written during a
 NA> time when Echomail was really becoming popular and programmers could
 NA> not necessarily agree on what kludges to implement as standard. A lot
 NA> of software really implemented what was "required" and not proposals.

 NA> INTL and FMPT/TOPT come to mind... I'm sure theres others.

Of course, but the TZUTC kludge is a standard now:

http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-4008.002

Bye, Wilfred.


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