Subj : when a practice does it better.
To   : August Abolins
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Feb 23 2025 05:50 pm

Hello August,

On Sunday February 23 2025 09:20, you wrote to me:

 AA> Ok.. so, why would Tim's "better idea" be a violation if it may
 AA> indeed be a BETTER idea?  Why not incorportate it into an
 AA> existing standard as BETTER?

It is not better.

Read FTS-5003 par 5 about Obsolete Identifiers and see for yourself why the use of "CHRS: IBMPC 2" was deprecated over a decade ago and therefore is not "better". .

Also note the "must not" in the first line of that paragraph.


Cheers, Michiel

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