Subj : Out of the woodwork
To : Scott Little
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Nov 05 2018 07:22 pm
Re: Out of the woodwork
By: Scott Little to Martin Foster on Mon Nov 05 2018 08:31 pm
>
> [ On 2018-11-05 at 08:41:00, Martin Foster wrote to Torsten Bamberg ]
>
> MF> Here's a small snippet from that document which certainly does not
> MF> accurately reflect the current state of FidoNet .....
> MF> ---------- 8< ----------
> MF> A. Introduction
> MF> FidoNet has grown beyond most peoples' fantasies, and new
> MF> FidoNet implementations are appearing regularly.
> MF> ---------- 8< ----------
>
> Ouch!
>
> IIRC there were other issues with FTS1 (can't remember, it was a while ago)
The most glaring problem (to me) is that it doesn't define the defacto-standard
packet format used today (defined in FSC-48 or FSC-39 ... depending ...).
> but
> it never got updated because it's copyrighted so we would have to rewrite it
> from scratch.
It should be re-written from scratch or just deprecated.
Stephen Hurd tried to get a new document on the "current" packet formats
published through the FTSC but gave up in frustration with the process and
people. I don't blame him.
I have my own FidoNet packet reference published here:
http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:fidonet_packets
I'm glad the FTSC archive is online, but it seems anything "new" or any
corrections to any existing documents are very difficult to get published.