MvdV> Some call this process diplomacy. Go in small steps. Don't try to break   
    MvdV> down the wall in one day. That won't work. First make a door but do not   
    MvdV> open it yet. Then make a peep hole to raise the other side's curiosity.   
    MvdV> Then give them a key so they can open the door. Small steps...   
      
      I know, Michiel. In 1999 I opened the wall. Many sysops adopted my Y2K   
   patch. I told Ward about it over and over again, but he never remembered the   
   previous time.   
      
      Now, I opened the wall 15 years ago. I then spent a year or so, some five   
   years ago with this new project. This was some five years ago.   
      
      Yes indeed, I know all about the small steps and so on, but I am getting   
   slightly frustrated with the constant brick wall I've been facing for all   
   those year.   
      
    MvdV> Eh.. if you completely disabled it, would that not be an UNconritional   
    MvdV> jump?   
      
      Dunno what that means. I changed JNZ xx to JNZ 00. In my book it's a   
   conditional jump changed from somewhere further down the code into a jump to   
   the next instruction.   
      
    BF>> Who cares?   
      
    MvdV> I for one.   
      
      Why?   
      
    MvdV> So why don't we completely do away with the fields for the system name,   
    MvdV> the sysop name and the location. They serve no purpose whatsoever in   
    MvdV> regarding mailers making a connection.   
      
      Depends. Most systems depend on them. But I agree that we could easily let   
   go of the old, outdated FTS specifications, as long as we maintain the comma   
   limited structure.   
      
    MvdV>>> I we allow more than ASCII, we should allow ALL Fidonet   
    MvdV>>> participants to have their name properly spelled.   
      
    BF>> Nah, lets do it!   
      
    MvdV> Let us do what?   
      
      What you suggest above.   
      
    MvdV> So I suggest you make the next step. Instead of using an 8 bit character   
    MvdV> set to encode the ” for your name in the nodelist, encode it in UTF-8.   
    MvdV> This will show as TWO question marks in the Z2 nodelist.   
      
      Good suggestion. But I think I'll stay with your one-step suggestion for   
   the moment. In five or so years, when we have a ZC that can handle the   
   nodelist properly, I'll consider expanding my umlaut project in the nodelist.    
   8-)   
      
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