Text 13427, 42 rader
Skriven 2023-10-18 23:30:27 av Rob Swindell (32449.ftsc_pub)
  Kommentar till text 13426 av deon (32448.ftsc_pub)
Ärende: Question on FTS-0001
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  Re: Question on FTS-0001
  By: Rob Swindell to deon on Wed Oct 18 2023 05:46 pm

 >   Re: Question on FTS-0001
 >   By: deon to Rob Swindell on Wed Oct 18 2023 07:04 pm
 >
 >  >   Re: Question on FTS-0001
 >  >   By: Rob Swindell to deon on Tue Oct 17 2023 11:24 pm
 >
 >  >  > FTS-1 doesn't deal with echomail. You can wish it did, but it just
 >  >  > doesn't.
 >
 >  > I dont wish it did.
 >
 >  > FTS-0001 talks about packed messages - which is what I'm talking about.
 >
 >  > I'm not sure what your refering to though...

Let me try further clarifcation: when FTS-1 (FSC-1) was first written, there
was only one type of FidoNet message: the one-to-one private message that we
now call "netmail". It wasn't until the invention described in FTS-4 that
one-to-many messages (then called "conference mail", but now commonly called
"echomail") was introduced. So every reference to a "message" in FTS-1 is
implicitly a reference to a "netmail message". There's no mention of "netmail"
or "echomail" in FTS-1 because there these terms were not in use when
originally written since there was no need to disambiguate between one-to-one
and one-to-many FidoNet messages. Only the former existed... until "conference
mail" (and FTS-4) came along. FSC/FTS-1 was likely formalized and published
some time after conference mail (echomail) was introduced and commonplace, but
the orgins and chronological evolution of FidoNet was maintained in the
incremental numbering and increasing comprehensiveness of the published specs.
FTS-1 isn't supposed to paint the complete picture of FTN, just the foundation
(with some extraneous, some now-obsolete, details thrown in for historic
context).
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