Subj : FTS-1 and FTS-4
To   : mark lewis
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Wed Nov 07 2018 11:28 am

  Re: FTS-1 and FTS-4
  By: mark lewis to Bj”rn Felten on Wed Nov 07 2018 12:09 pm

 >
 >  On 2018 Nov 06 21:05:10, you wrote to Rob Swindell:
 >
 >  BF> You probably need to program for FTN in order to fully understand the
 >  BF> definitions in FTS-1.
 >
 > ummm... Rob does program for FTN... he is the (new) maintainer of sbbsecho
 > which has recently undergone a rewrite to fix numerous items and make some
 > things easier to handle... sbbsecho used to be a 3rd party addon but that
 > maintainer left some time ago...

Just some clarification on the history of SBBSecho: I alone wrote the first
tosser (SBBSFIDO) and the FTN-netmail (.msg file) support for Synchronet back
in like 1991 or '92. Later, I hired Allen Christiansen (who was already writing
3rd party addons for Synchronet under the company name Domain Entertainment) as
a full-time employee of Digital Dynamics. Allen then created SBBSecho based
somewhat on my SBBSFIDO code. SBBSFIDO was then deprecated and SBBSecho became
a commerical product of Digital Dynamics (addon for Synchronet) from
1993-1996ish. Digital Dynamics ceased day-to-day operations in 1995 and I
continued to support Synchronet and SBBSecho (and the other addons from DD)
after that. SBBSecho (along with Synchronet v2) was released to the public
domain in 1997.

Synchronet v3 and SBBSecho v2 started as an open source project in 1999, with
SBBSecho being comprised mostly of Allen's code. I supported and patched the
SBBSecho code over the years and completed a vast re-write (SBBSecho v3) in
April of 2016 and that's what is supported today. Some of Allen's code still
remains in that program. :-)

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