RS> Interesting. Did this "GIF kludge" use the same format as defined by RS> Sergey in 2017? The (few) GIF kludges I see in my message bases seem RS> to match Sergey's definition.
Yes, Sergey's document matches what I recall of the format of the GIF kludge. I am not so sure about implication of the file being file requestable from the author's system. I do not recall how I got the file. File request would not work for point systems anyway and pointing was very popular at the time in The Netherlands.
The other kludges in the document do not trigger my memory.
>> I merely meant to point out that having a kludge to facilitate >> displaying an image representing the author along with the message >> is not new. Indeed it differs from what you propose in that the GIF >> kludge directly gives the name of the file that contains the image.
RS> Yeah, I was aware. I think the BBS ID kludge could have other uses RS> too.
Possibly. But in Fidonet we already have a way to identify a system: the node number. And that is guaranteed to be globally unique within Fidonet.
