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Skriven 2015-02-18 18:10:54 av Kees van Eeten (2:280/5003.4)
  Kommentar till text 21158 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: FidoNews 32:07 [02/07]: General Articles
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Hello Björn!

18 Feb 15 15:57, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 BF>    We might get the answer in just a few weeks, now that all of us *Cs
 BF> have the proper tool available. Then the sysops could chose what character
 BF> encoding they prefer, rather than have a specific ditto forced upon them
 BF> from above.

 I am not completely shure what you have in mind, nor that it will improove
 communication within Fidonet.

 Is it your expectation, that the ZC will accept nay 8 bit encoding, or is
 everybody going to build his own Nodelist, with just HIS name spelled in
 some weird encoding.

 Whatever superduper environment you use, the more people you want to
 communicate with, the more you have to step down to a common denominator.
 For Fidonet that is ASCII. Others cannot read your message, if you offer
 your opinions in an encoding they cannot decypher. They will not go out
 of their way to adapt to your encoding, even for people with your stature.

 It is my beleif, that even if we stepped down to numerical ID's, we would be
 better served than
 by using incompatible encodings as we whish, or an all encompassing  encoding,
 that the majority cannot use.

Kees

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