Subj : Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance.
To   : Henri Derksen
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Mon Apr 22 2019 02:24 am

Hello Henri!

21 Apr 19 13:49, you wrote to me:

 AL>> That makes sense, then.  Both 203/0 and 240/5832 are using Squish.
 AL>> This could be a previously unrecognized bug in Squish.

 HD> Is there a chance this bug would be repaired?
 HD> You know the author?

Scott Dudley wrote Squish (along with Maximus-CBCS.)  He's been out of FidoNet 
for a while, but I believe the source code for Squish was included in the 
release of the Maximus source code.  If so, it's probably possible that 
someone might fix it.

 HD> If not, all users of this software for exchanging EchoMail could get a
 HD> warning of modifying in transit (echo-)Mail, ducking.

I don't consider that likely to happen.

 HD> Indeed the postman shall never alter the contents of mail.

 HD> If not repairable (abandonware?),
 HD> the users should think about replacing this software for something
 HD> else. To become in Spec again ;-).

In theory, nodes currently using Squish could switch to something else, such 
as HPT or FastEcho.  I find it unlikely, however, that too many will.

Andrew

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