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|    Oli to mark lewis    |
|    Issue with BinkD and outbound attempts.    |
|    29 Mar 20 15:45:25    |
      REPLY: 597.fido-binkd@1:3634/12 22e5cf72       MSGID: 2:280/464.47@fidonet 5e80a934       CHRS: UTF-8 4       TZUTC: 0200       TID: CrashMail II/Linux 1.7        ml>> don't get confused by the chicken and the egg syndrome... binkd        ml>> came first and the FTSC documents came after ;)               Oli>> Before BinkD and FTS-5005 there was the original BinkleyTerm        Oli>> mailer that defined BSO in 1990.               ml> yes... this is true...               Oli>> The FTSC documented the original BSO de facto standard.               ml> document number, please... i'm unable to find any such document aside from        ml> FSP-1034/FRL-1034 which was the first attempt at documenting BSO back in       like        ml> 2005... it wasn't picked up and anything done with it until 2014...              The document number is in the paragraph you've quoted              http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-5005.003               >> I wonder why the Binkd developers decided that they don't have        >> to follow that standard in the sample binkd.cfg that is        >> distributed with binkd.               ml> what standard? please provide the document number...               ml> also remember that binkleyterm is POTS while binkd is internet and the       only thing        ml> common between them is the BSO...              POTS or TCP/IP, the only thing that matters is that BinkleTerm is the       reference implementation for 4D and 5D BSO.              --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: kakistocracy (2:280/464.47)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/30 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/200 426 1014 240/5832 249/109 307 317 280/464 5003 5555       SEEN-BY: 288/100 292/854 310/31 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1       SEEN-BY: 2452/250       PATH: 280/464 229/426           |
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