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Skriven 2013-02-26 21:19:11 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.42)
   Kommentar till text 6957 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
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 MvdV> On Tuesday February 26 2013 12:32, you wrote to me:
 MvdV>> It means that he speaks for himself. You addressed me in my
 MvdV>> capacity of FTSC chairman.

 ml> no dale didn't address you in that capacity...

 MvdV> Yes he did. He wrote this:

 DS> I had expected that you as chairman of the FTSC, of all people, would
 DS> have known the answer and would have been able to quickly point to the
 DS> document called for in Echopol1 which would

 MvdV> I read that as being addressed as FTSC chairman.

not in the specific message in particular where he asked you that question...
the above exchange came in another one...

 MvdV>> You asked me if there is an FTSC standard superceding the
 MvdV>> quoted clause of EP1.

 ml> yes, he did do this...

 MvdV> And I answered his question.

i know this ;)

 MvdV>> My answer was and is: no, because technical standards do not
 MvdV>> supercede policy and vice versa.

 ml> the clause quotes character usage restrictions based on 
 ml> FTS-0004... however, i'm unable to locate anything in FTS-0004.TXT 
 ml> (21655 06 Nov 1988) that says anything about character usage 
 ml> restrictions or even names any character sets... obviously someone 
 ml> involved with writing EP1 didn't know what they were talking about 
 ml> when they wrote that section...

 MvdV> Mu guess is that the reference to FTS-0004 is a typo and what was
 MvdV> meant is FTS-0001.

definitely not a typo... you have to know the person who was behind EP1 to know
the difference ;)

 MvdV> FTS-0001 mentions the soft return (8Dh) as something one may 
 MvdV> expect to be present in the message body. Hence the exception 
 MvdV> made in EP1. 

and what about the specification of the other characters?

 MvdV> So the reference to fts-xxxx is not about the restriction, but
 MvdV> about the exception to the restriction.

 MvdV> Just my EUR 0.02.

misspent yet again ;)

)\/(ark

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