Subj : Seasons Greetings
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Dec 17 2017 13:53:56

Hello Nicholas,

On Saturday December 16 2017 22:49, you wrote to me:

 MV>> For backward compatibility the level parameter should
 MV>> still be written on outgoing messages. For the time being...

 NB> Probably forever now. The most used softwares these days are not going
 NB> to remove the level parameter, even though they should.

A relevant question is "how much software actually NEEDS the level parameter to do its job?". Golded does not seem to care about the level parameter on incoming messages. I see no difference in behaviour between messages with "UTF-8 2" and "UTF-8 4".

 MV>> It may disappear one day. Or not...

 NB> Most likely not.

Fidonet is full of stuff that we would do very different when we were to redo from start now, but that are hard to get rid of.


Cheers, Michiel

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