= Сообщение: 7011 из 7128 ====================================== FTSC_PUBLIC = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 02 Jan 24 11:12:09 Кому : Rob Swindell 02 Jan 24 11:12:09 Тема : FSP-10xx-1: BBSID Kludge Specification FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=2:280/5555+6593e5ed На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=32473.ftsc_pub@1:103/705+29f8004e = Кодировка сообщения определена как: UTF-8 ================================== ============================================================================== Hello Rob,
On Sunday December 31 2023 21:19, you wrote to me:
>> 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.
RS> What we don't have in FidoNet is a way to correlate systems with RS> multiple FTN addresses (from multiple FTNs) as being the *same* RS> system. That's the problem solved with the BBS ID Kludge.
1) When it comes to avatars, I'd say that the purpose is beter served with a USER ID rather than a BBS ID. Ever so often users do not always post from one and the same BBS. I posted as a user from several BBS's before I discovered posting as a point in Fidonet... over three decades ago. The BBS kludge does not address users posting from multiple BBS's. The GIF kludge did...
2) From my limited understanding of the reasons for users to participe in so called "othernets" I gather that ever so often they explicitley want to distance themselves from Fidonet. What I also see is people trying to obfuscate their identity by using nicknames and different spelling of their name. So what "problem" is solved by this proposed Fidonet standard for the users that most likely do not want to be identified across networks and that want no involvement with Fidonet?
