Subj : Out of the woodwork
To   : Scott Little
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Nov 05 2018 07:22 pm

  Re: Out of the woodwork
  By: Scott Little to Martin Foster on Mon Nov 05 2018 08:31 pm

 >
 >  [ On 2018-11-05 at 08:41:00, Martin Foster wrote to Torsten Bamberg ]
 >
 >  MF> Here's a small snippet from that document which certainly does not
 >  MF> accurately reflect the current state of FidoNet .....
 >  MF> ---------- 8< ----------
 >  MF> A. Introduction
 >  MF>     FidoNet  has  grown  beyond  most  peoples' fantasies, and  new
 >  MF>     FidoNet implementations  are appearing regularly.
 >  MF> ---------- 8< ----------
 >
 > Ouch!
 >
 > IIRC there were other issues with FTS1 (can't remember, it was a while ago)

The most glaring problem (to me) is that it doesn't define the defacto-standard
packet format used today (defined in FSC-48 or FSC-39 ... depending ...).

 > but
 > it never got updated because it's copyrighted so we would have to rewrite it
 > from scratch.

It should be re-written from scratch or just deprecated.

Stephen Hurd tried to get a new document on the "current" packet formats
published through the FTSC but gave up in frustration with the process and
people. I don't blame him.

I have my own FidoNet packet reference published here:
http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:fidonet_packets

I'm glad the FTSC archive is online, but it seems anything "new" or any
corrections to any existing documents are very difficult to get published.

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