Subj : Re: sending to a fido address in thunder
To   : Digital Man
From : Atreyu
Date : Tue Oct 25 2022 10:41:19

On 24 Oct 22  14:40:30, Digital Man said the following to Atreyu:

DM> SMB stores header fields (including FTN kludge lines, PATHs, SEEN-BYs)
DM> separate from the message text too. This enables all kinds of performance a
DM> extensibility that would be impossible or very difficult to achieve otherwi

The biggest problem I've always had with this is that its too techie... it is 
incredibly convoluted.

In all this time I was never convinced on the performance or extensibility...
maybe if things really took off with adding multimedia/encoded/attachments or
whatever but it just never happened.

Maybe I'm just alone in thinking that it should be stupid-simple to write a 
message to disk in one's program without having several different indexes or
headers or frames or having to use someone else's API.

In *.MSG you fill out one header and dump your body, you're done... bad 
example but you get the message.

Atreyu

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