Subj : Seasons Greetings
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Sun Dec 17 2017 11:00:42

Hello Michiel,

On Sun Dec 17 2017 13:53:56, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Nicholas Boel:

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

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

As far as NEEDING the level parameter, none. Both Golded and JamNNTPd come the closest, but neither actually *support* anything above level 2. You have to use hacks and workarounds in order to achieve anything above that.

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

 NB>> Most likely not.

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

Agreed.

Regards,
Nick

.... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."
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