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Skriven 2012-09-18 23:43:04 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
   Kommentar till text 4085 av Michiel Van Der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Re: Article suggestion
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 -=> On 09-18-12  21:49,  Michiel Van Der Vlist <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Article suggestion <=-


 DS> Thanks for the references, but they do not satisfy the request.  They
 DS> describe binkp in excruciating technical detail for the software
 DS> developer.

 MVDV> Developers are the primary audience for he FTSC documents...

Exactly my point.  I am asking for some guidance for the novice, and the
FTSC documents are not it.

 MVDV> Just as *Cs are the primary audiance for the nodelist epilogue.

Also not novices just getting started, or trying to understand how they
might use other protocols.

 DS> They would mean very little to the novice who is trying to
 DS> figure out how he or she should use binkp on his system.

 MVDV> For that there are the manuals of the various binkp implementations.
 
 DS>>    What systems use BINKP? etc.

 MVDV> The ones listed with an IBN flag in the nodelist?

The nodelist does not mention the software that is being used.

 DS> Educating a user from scratch is doable by someone who knows the
 DS> technology and who has a basic understanding of what new sysops need
 DS> to know.

 MVDV> If you think it is doable, why don't YOU do it?

Because I do not know enough to do it.
 
 DS>> Similarly for IFC, ITN, IVM, IFT, ITX, IUC, IMI, ISE, INA.

 MVDV>> http://www.ftsc.org/docs/fts-1026.001

 MVDV>> Its is all there.
 
 DS> Sorry, but none of those flags are listed in that document.

 MVDV> Sorry, wrong link

 MVDV> fts-1025 for SEAT.

That helped, and so did fts-1024 -- but neither of them truly satisfy
what I am thinking about as an introductory tutorial.

 MVDV> I am sure you can find more at the FTSC site.
 
 DS> For example consider the flag ITX defined in FTS-5001 as TransX
 DS> encoding for email tunneling with receipts enabled.
 
 DS> BUT, the document does not define either of the terms "TransX
 DS> encoding" or "email tunneling".   In fact, it never mentions them
 DS> anyplace other than in defining the flag ITX.  It would be useful to
 DS> know what that flag means and how someone might implement them.

 MVDV> So write the article...

How can I write such an article when all I know about it is what is in
the nodelist, or what I can glean from a couple of FTS documents.

For example -- you have my email address.  Could you send me a direct
netmail via email tunneling of some sort?  Can my Eudora email program
handle it, or would I have to get some other program -- and if so, what
program?

I know that I can use my Eudora to send QWK packets to my users and to
receive REP packets from them and process those replies into my Squish
data base through Maximus.


                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)

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