Subj : Unix point?
To   : Tim Schattkowsky
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Jan 14 2022 11:07 am


On 2022 Jan 14 15:13:50, you wrote to me:

ml>> have you looked at any of the other PKT and packed message formats?
ml>> have you implemented any of them and gotten other developers to also
ml>> implement them? that's what it takes to get things changed, ya
ml>> know...

TS> Foremost, he should try to fix things that are actually broken. CHRS
TS> and TZUTC are not (although CHRS is slightly overengineered, but does
TS> the job).

agreed... to a point :)

TS> For Fido, I see other problems like privacy/security and even message
TS> length where the existing technology really is not state of the art.

FWIW: message bodies are unbounded in FTN specs... any limitations seen are placed there by the devs of those particular tools that exhibit message length problems...

from FTS-0001...

  1. Application Layer Data Definition : a Stored Message

                              Stored Message

      Offset
     dec hex
             .-----------------------------------------------.
[...]
             +-----------------------+-----------------------+
     190  BE |                      text                     |
             ~                    unbounded                  ~
             |                 null terminated               |
             `-----------------------------------------------'
[...]
  1. Presentation Layer Data Definition : the Packed Message

[...]
                               Packed Message

      Offset
     dec hex
             .-----------------------------------------------.
[...]
             +-----------------------+-----------------------+
      34  22 |                  toUserName                   |
             ~                  max 36 bytes                 ~
             |                null terminated                |
             +-----------------------+-----------------------+
             |                 fromUserName                  |
             ~                  max 36 bytes                 ~
             |                null terminated                |
             +-----------------------+-----------------------+
             |                    subject                    |
             ~                  max 72 bytes                 ~
             |                null terminated                |
             +-----------------------+-----------------------+
             |                      text                     |
             ~                    unbounded                  ~
             |                 null terminated               |
             `-----------------------------------------------'

just saying ;)


)\/(ark

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