Subj : FSP-10xx-1: BBSID Kludge Specification
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Dec 30 2023 05:18 pm

Hello Rob,

On Friday December 29 2023 18:00, you wrote to me:

>> Henk Wever's GIF kludge was not just an idea either. It has been in
>> actual use for several years.

RS> Are you refering to this draft (by Sergey Sokoloff)?
RS> https://github.com/Mithgol/node-fidonet-jam/blob/master/avatar.txt

I was not refering to any document, I was refering to my memory. As I mentioned, it never made it into an FTSC standard. Possible because there was no FTSC yet when it was used. It was used by Henk Wever's bbs/mailer Dutchie that was not used much outside The Netherlands. I am talking about the very early days of Fidonet. end 80ties, begin 90ties. Here is the picture that Henk used in his GIF kludge:

http://www.vlist.eu/fotos/henkweve.gif

I merely meant to point out that having a kludge to facilitate displaying an image representing the author along with the message is not new. Indeed it differs from what you propose in that the GIF kludge directly gives the name of the file that contains the image.


Cheers, Michiel

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