Subj : 2019 FTSC Standing Member Election - Nominations Status
To   : Björn Felten
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sat Dec 07 2019 08:02 am

Hi! Björn,

On 12/07/2019 03:54 AM, you wrote:

WD>>> * Introducing INA against the express wishes of Michiel

O>> I'm not sure why it was introduced at the time. Maybe there were good
O>> reason, but nowadays it's mostly useless and could be deprecated for
O>> simplification.

BF>     It was a stupid and worthless flag idea from day one. We still don't
BF> know of any FTN software that makes any use of it, so it should never
BF> have been included in FTS-5001.

The most advanced piece of FTN software, Radius, used to use it.  It is a
belief of mine -only- that the follow-on project, Taurus, would also.

Cheers,
Paul.

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