Subj : FSP-10xx-1: BBSID Kludge Specification
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Dec 30 2023 06:01 pm

  Re: FSP-10xx-1: BBSID Kludge Specification
  By: Michiel van der Vlist to Rob Swindell on Sat Dec 30 2023 05:18 pm

 > Hello Rob,
 >
 > On Friday December 29 2023 18:00, you wrote to me:
 >
 >  >> Henk Wever's GIF kludge was not just an idea either. It has been in
 >  >> actual use for several years.
 >
 >  RS> Are you refering to this draft (by Sergey Sokoloff)?
 >  RS> https://github.com/Mithgol/node-fidonet-jam/blob/master/avatar.txt
 >
 > I was not refering to any document, I was refering to my memory. As I
 > mentioned, it never made it into an FTSC standard. Possible because there
 > was no FTSC yet when it was used. It was used by Henk Wever's bbs/mailer
 > Dutchie that was not used much outside The Netherlands. I am talking about
 > the very early days of Fidonet. end 80ties, begin 90ties. Here is the
 > picture that Henk used in his GIF kludge:
 >
 > http://www.vlist.eu/fotos/henkweve.gif

Interesting. Did this "GIF kludge" use the same format as defined by Sergey in 2017? The (few) GIF kludges I see in my message bases seem to match Sergey's definition.

 > I merely meant to point out that having a kludge to facilitate displaying an
 > image representing the author along with the message is not new. Indeed it
 > differs from what you propose in that the GIF kludge directly gives the name
 > of the file that contains the image.

Yeah, I was aware. I think the BBS ID kludge could have other uses too.
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