Subj : Ideas for a new stan
To   : Alan Ianson
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Nov 15 2018 08:00 am


 On 2018 Nov 15 03:50:24, you wrote to Dale Shipp:

 AI> I knew there was an attempt to change policy that failed but I didn't
 AI> know the reason why. That's really sad to learn that the RCs of
 AI> Fidonet either didn't care or were to busy with other things.. :(

it wasn't so much that they didn't care or were too* busy with other things... 
some got confused about which parts went with which documents... remember, some 
tossers sort messages by subject line and that easily leads to sorting posts 
out of order... even when one takes specific steps to try to work around such 
limitations when posting a batch of related messages... there was also 
(reportedly) coercion involved with some RCs being told (aka ordered) to 
participate or be replaced... the biggest thing that aided in the confusion was 
that the document had to be posted in parts... ideally RCs would have saved 
those parts and reassembled them into a single document so it could be read 
properly as dictated by policy... that can be hard to do with some older 
software...

)\/(ark

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