Re: Re: slightly different format
By: Wilfred van Velzen to Maurice Kinal on Tue Nov 17 2020 09:38 am
> Hi Maurice,
> On 2020-11-16 13:28:16, you wrote to me:
> WvV>> That was the case untill last year, when the new chairman forgot
> WvV>> about it, and it was moved up a couple of months.
> MK> I recall that. Seems an odd thing for the chairman to forget about.
> He was new to the job. And the FTSC is probably not very active, since the
> previous chairman left. But I don't really know, except I see no updated or
> documents apear, so I could be wrong...
> MK> We'll see when it comes up and in the meantime I'll think about it.
> MK> Thank you for your encouragment although I have to wonder if I am not
> MK> stepping into something that would be best to leave alone. It might
> MK> turn out I have more impact - if indeed I have ever had any impact -
> MK> as an outsider to the FTSC. From this perspective it doesn't appear
> MK> being an FTSC member has any real influence over so-called standards.
> MK> Am I missing something?
> The FTSC is about documenting current practise. So if you think you can chan
> the standards to include general internet practise, your in the wrong place.
> You're probably better of in for instance NET_DEV and try to convince other
> developers to change their products to do so. But that can only be done in a
> backwards compatible way, because of all the legacy software that is still i
> use but can't be changed, because the developers left fidonet (a long time
> ago).
> And bitching about it in ASIAN_LINK has very little to no effect. ;)
> Bye, Wilfred.
Grin, I've not seen the next election either but shouldn't be far off.
xxcarol
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