Text 6563, 48 rader
Skriven 2013-02-18 14:28:12 av Kees van Eeten (2:280/5003.4)
   Kommentar till text 6550 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: LOL!
============
Hello Björn!

18 Feb 13 03:57, you wrote to mark lewis:

 BF>    That makes a lot of sense to me. But how about sacrificing the last
 BF> byte of the subject header (the longest, only reducing it from 72 to 71)
 BF> and there putting a byte indicating what encoding is in the header. The
 BF> preceding byte(s) must of course be 0x00 (or we need to reserve two bytes
 BF> to make sure the archaic editors will always see a terminating 0x00 before
 BF> rolling over to the next field).

 I agree with you that, such an option would be nice, but it still does not
 solve the problem. Lets explore a few.

 I have a repository with messages and I want to search messages written
 by you. Looking only for the nodenumber, will not do, occasionally you
 post messages on other nodes.

 So for every message I inspect, I have to look for the codetable, convert
 the name filed and the match to the name I am looking for.
 I know computers are fast these days, butt still.

 A similar example, is the message index in the mailreader.

 Now one at a lower level, all be it hypothetical.

 I have a system where I have to apply policy based routing of messages.
 All messages to node and the nodes in your net can use a default routing.
 Now sombody with a character in his name that is defined differently in the
 divers code tables has irritated a forwarder in the default route, or
 (heaven forbid) reads that persons  private messages. To solve this we
 agree, that your private messages take a detour. I now have to tell my
 routing software, that for every messages that passes, it has to look for the
 code table translate the field and then match it to the special name.



 BF>    Ahem, I guess we've entered the world of NET_DEV or even FTSC now,
 BF> and
 BF> left FIDONEWS. But don't forget where you first read about it, though...
 BF> 8-)

 Is there still traffic in NET_DEV?

Kees

--- FPD v2.9.040207  GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5
 * Origin: As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. (2:280/5003.4)