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From: Eugene Medvedev <rn3aoh.g@gmail•com>
To: nncp-devel@lists.cypherpunks.su
Subject: Re: gemtext (was: So I made a thing: nncp-echomail)
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 21:39:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO-d-4qdGtvUujnZ7estfPjgNeYGyv8ouqU2Ug_EdhWVSjNJPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aOFlfiM2PpqSwmPA@stargrave.org>

On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 at 21:21, Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave•org> wrote:

> Well, it is your decision. I am afraid that those tiny steps could lead
> to reimplementation of the MIME. The most hard thing is to stop at good
> point of features and development :-)

Yes, I suppose so. :)

Well, let's see if anyone else around here has any input, I expect people
will start peeking in with feature requests any day now...

> Actually I have never experienced problems with it, or seen someone has.
> But I get in FidoNet when it was already declining, at the beginning of
> 2000s, with much mature software :-)

I've been there for most of the 90s. FTN standards at the time specified
the use of 0x8D as something equivalent to &shy; in HTML, so it would
simply disappear upon rendering everywhere. If you didn't tune your
software to replace it with 0x48, everyone would call you a lamer.

It did not do anything of the sort by default. :) Getting tripped up by
that was something of a rite of passage.

> You can safely shorten its output, as often done in practice. ZFS does
> that (one example immediately remembered).

Shorten as in what, just take the first 32 bytes? Are they all actually
equally significant?

--
Eugene Medvedev

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-04 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-04 13:52 So I made a thing: nncp-echomail Eugene Medvedev
2025-10-04 16:56 ` gemtext (was: So I made a thing: nncp-echomail) Sergey Matveev
2025-10-04 17:51   ` Eugene Medvedev
2025-10-04 18:20     ` Sergey Matveev
2025-10-04 18:39       ` Eugene Medvedev [this message]
2025-10-04 19:23         ` Sergey Matveev
2025-10-04 19:34           ` Eugene Medvedev
2025-10-15 20:46   ` Eugene Medvedev
2025-10-26 11:13     ` NNCP_PACKET and NNCP_ORIGIN Sergey Matveev