Subj : 2025 FTSC election
To   : Dan Clough
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Feb 21 2025 12:41 pm

Hello Dan,

On Thursday February 20 2025 21:51, you wrote to Nick Boel:

 DC> On the other hand, if the FTSC is so far gone that it's actually dead,

For all intents and purposes the FTSC is dead. The last document was published in 2022 and it was written by... me.

Naybe there was nothing noteworthy to document or maybe they just did nothing, Anyweay...

 DC>  then why bother continuing the charade?

Why indeed...

 DC> Maybe that's what you were asking about "worth" there, and in that
 DC> case I'd answer "probably not".  Maybe it should just be disbanded and
 DC> let anarchy take over.

It alway has been anarchy. The FTSC alwas was a toothless tiger. It had a mandate to document "existing practise" - whatever that meant - but it had no means to see that documented standards were followed. And they aren't. There are no consequences for pig headed programmers and *Cs to deviate from FTSC standards. And now that these pig headed programmers have even invaded the FTSC (Rob Swindell, FTS-0009 and Tim Schattkowsky, FTS-5003) we may as abandon all hope.

 DC> But I would hope that doesn't happen because it would likely hasten
 DC> the end of FidoNet.

Maybe, maybe not.


Cheers, Michiel

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