Subj : SQUISH ... who can submit the proposal?
To   : mark lewis
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Thu Feb 21 2019 06:50 pm

  Re: SQUISH ... who can submit the proposal?
  By: mark lewis to Rob Swindell on Mon Feb 18 2019 09:09 pm

 ml>>> it was discussed some time back (maybe 10-15 years?) but decided
 ml>>> against since  they are not FTN related... they are specific to
 ml>>> message storage which can be  done in any format and is not
 ml>>> required for FTN participation...

 RS>> FOSSIL isn't required for FTN participation either, yet it's an FSC
 document. <shrug>

 ML> it was at one time because that was the only way to have the software be
 ML> able to run on multiple platforms with widely differing serial port
 ML> methodologies... there was also a video fossil (aka VFOSSIL) used due to
 ML> differing video methodologies... MSG is also documented and not
 ML> required...


 ML> i actually liked the idea of having the message base formats and detailed 
 ML> information on how they worked in the library but... that discussion was
 ML> back when odin, colin or scott were the chair... i'm fairly sure it was
 ML> before scott... i don't have a problem adding them to the /reference/
 ML> library... it is a bit late in the game, though...

Colin and Odin both.
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