Subj : alternative DateTime (ref: fts-0001.016)
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Dec 19 2020 04:59 am

Hey Rob!

 RS> I find it interesting you would cause the type 2.2 packet header
 RS> a "scam".

I got burned by it way back when and almost quit.  However the fighting spirit later got awoken in me and it sparked a bout of backwards engineering which is still part of the routine(s) being deployed in this neck of the woods.  Anyhow I will still cite it as evidence that not all is as it seems in Fidonet wrt backwards compatibilty/standards/whatever.

Are you defending it?

 MK>> isn't the pktheader in fts-0001.016 not supported by ALL
 MK>> concerned especially the echomail movers?

 RS> Isn't it?

Nope.  Like I said previously I only am aware of one and it's been awhile since I tested it there so even that one may not support it anymore.  He is still moving mail and it wouldn't be too hard to test it out if needed.

 RS> And type 2.2 packet headers are backward compatible with type
 RS> 2.0/stone-age headers, so it's pretty easy to autodetect the
 RS> type and support all the type-2 variants of incoming packets.

Really?  Have you actually tested that?  Or is this some type of blind faith statement on your part?  Also, while I am at it, I only found one that could handle Type 2+ pktheaders and it wasn't the same one that could do type 2 pktheaders.  Most are 2.2 only and don't even know it.

 RS> Whoa there skippy! What on Earth are you talking about?

:-)  Nothing you need to worry about ... I think.

Life is good,
Maurice

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