Subj : 2025 FTSC election
To : Rob Swindell
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 02:23 pm
Hello Rob,
On Sunday February 23 2025 15:21, you wrote to me:
>> The messages of Rob Swindell violate FTS-0009.
RS> Yeah, that's been debunked:
RS>
https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:misc#ftn_msgid
You have published your arguments of why you believe your mnethod to be "better". You have not disproven my assesment that your method is in violation of FTS-0009.
I am not saying that your arguments are without merit. That is not my point. My point is that simply ignoring a well established standard and going your own way just because you consider it a better way is the not proper way to introduce something new. Independant of the question if it actually IS "better".
There is nothing wrong with finding better ways to do things. On the contrary. If you think you have something better bring it to the attention of the Fidonet community. By all means experiment with it. But do NOT go against an established standard! Do not call it MSGID. Call it MSGSIG or whatever, but do NOT use something that is already documented as an existing standard.
It is not your new method as such that I have poblems with, it is the way you introduce it.
You published "your way" in a corner of the InterNet that would not normally be visited by Joe Sysop. You have been an FSTC member for many years but you never bothered to file a formal proposal for your way to discern one message from another. You never filed a proposal for an amendment to FTS-0009 either. No, you just did it. Just like that. without concern for what it might break.
There is no point in spending time and energy to document current practise if anyone can just ignore it and do as (s)he pleases ju8st because (s)he thinks that is "better".
Cheers, Michiel
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