TS> For private messages, there is little sense in competing with email. TS> Surely fidonet netmail is not going to replace email during the next 5 TS> years. However, it makes a lot of sense to provide comparable capabilities TS> just to enable users to make consistent use of netmail and echomail while TS> having basic capabilities that are just not worse than email 20 years ago. TS> Currently thats not remotely the case.
E-mail has not changed either in te last 20 years. The only thing that has changed are the user clients that can now display mime encapsulated messages.
Designing a different way of encapsulation for fidonet is hardly productive. Mime encapsulation is not hostile to the content section of fidonet messages.
No changes have to have to be made to Fidonet. The only changes are at the presentation layer, wich is not subject to fidonet standards.
Kees
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