Subj : 2019 FTSC Standing Member Election - Nominations Status To : Ward Dossche From : Alexey Vissarionov Date : Thu Dec 05 2019 02:10 pm Good ${greeting_time}, Ward! 04 Dec 2019 10:02:28, you wrote to me: AV>> TB> Aha... have _you_ ever done something tecnical represantive AV>> TB> for fido? ^^^^^^^^^(1) AV>> Being mostly a nodelist clerk, does he really need to? ^(2) WD> That is 100" correct. Was, before being touched(1) by your old smelly editor :-) FSC-0032 is just a proposal, but it is based on a much older rules, requiring adding quote sign _before_ existing quote signs, but _after_ initials (which obviously are optional). Given that, I've marked(2) the quote sign added by my editor. AV>> TB> Written some patches? AV>> According to my memories: only proposed. However, good feature AV>> request may be almost a half of all work. WD> Let me think about some of the things which I did ... WD> * Ending the R24-schism. Torsten only joined Fidonet in 1996 so WD> he wouldn't be aware of that /me too. WD> * Introducing IP into the nodelist (mark my words, no claim of WD> inventing it) WD> * Introducing/allowing Pvt for IP-only nodes when nothing else WD> was possible WD> * Introducing INA against the express wishes of Michiel WD> * Introducing daily-nodelists Good. WD> * Introducing an UTF8-nodelist by request of Michiel, which I WD> think no-one uses We (here in R50) could use it, but the others would unlikely be able to read it... Also, there once was a Z6 :-) WD> * Whenever I could, meet people, have a beer , eat something ... WD> it is remarkable how one's perception of another person can change WD> after that The BEER nodelist flag (FSP-1041) also was introduced for that purpose, WD> * I also wish some of the Russian sysops would remind me in a timely WD> manner of the annual impromptu beer-meeting in a Moscow park. Next would be 2020-03-28 in a beer pub at 55.7424 N 37.6523 E :-) WD> * Introducton of PING. That is nothing major but I do get several WD> PING requests, so it must serve a purpose... I couldn't expect this stupid robot to become so popular... WD> * Auto-converting old ISDN-flags WD> * Implement IBN IFC ITN IVM IMI ISE ITX IUC IEM IFT ETX EVY EMA WD> RPK NPK SDS SMH CDP ENC ... s/Implement/Introduce/ ? WD> * Adding a CRC in REGION-segments where one is missing or incorrect WD> prior to processing Generally, you had to check them first... Also, the CRC appears to be too weak for these days... The SHA-2 should be considered an absolute minimum, and Skein or Streebog are recommended. WD> ... and a lot more but alas it doesn't fall under the Torsten WD> guideline of doing "something tecnical represantive" "write WD> software" "write patches". That's what we expect from FTSC members, not from nodelist clerks. -- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-ccxxix-lxxix-xlii .... god@universe:~ # cvs up && make world --- /bin/vi * Origin: http://openwall.com/Owl (2:5020/545) .