Subj : FTS-5001
To   : Fred Riccio
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Thu Dec 06 2018 09:22 pm

Hello Fred,

On Thursday December 06 2018 13:06, you wrote to Markus Reschke:

FR> The standard is whatever "current practice" is.

The FTSC documents "current practise". But once it is documented as a standard,
one should not change it every time some idiot says something else that
conflicts with existing practise.

MR>> How do we resolve this dilemma?

FR> FTSC needs to document current practice.

That is impossible if current practise keeps changing because people refuse to
follow documented practise.

FR> FYI, I agree that using two IBN records, as documented in FTS-5001,
FR> would have been a LOT cleaner than one INA and one IBN, but one of
FR> each DOES work.

The Schwartz way does not work.

.....300,INA:fido.vlist.net,IBN:fido.vlist.eu,ITN,IVM

With the Schwartz interpretation, how does one signal, that fido.vlist.eu is to
be used for ITN and IVM and fido.vlist.eu for IBN but fido.vlist.net is NOT to
be used for IBN?

FR> To quote a past FTSC chair, "If you do it this way, it will work".

But if one does NOT do it this way and makes something else, it may not work.
Having two conflicting interpretations of the same flag does not work.


Cheers, Michiel

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