Subj : FTS-1 and FTS-4
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Tue Nov 06 2018 01:01 pm

  Re: FTS-1 and FTS-4
  By: Bj”rn Felten to Rob Swindell on Tue Nov 06 2018 09:41 pm

 >  RS> In your document
 >  RS> (http://eljaco.se/FILES/FTSC/FTS-0001.017%20--%20RFC.txt), you
 >  RS> have defined "The message format" (section 2a) which corresponds with
 >  RS> the "Stored Message" defined in FTS-1.
 >
 >    If I missed anything from the original FTS-1, that was really just the
 > README file for the ConfMail tosser/scanner, I'd say it's a good catch by
 > you  and I stand corrected. ConfMail stored the messages in MSG-format, one
 > message  per *.MSG file.
 >
 >    As stated, it was an RFC.
 >
 >  RS> Packed Messages are sent between FTN nodes, Stored Messages are not.
 >
 >    Yeah, that's what I was saying.

Right. And what I originally said was that the definition of "Stored Messages"
really doesn't belong in any new FTS-1 replacement document(s) - if that were
to happen.

The "Stored Message" (so-called .msg file) format is good to be defined in a
public document for software inter-operability on the systems that use it
(still), but it's certainly not a requirement for FTN communication.

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