On Saturday December 16 2017 22:49, you wrote to me:
MV>> For backward compatibility the level parameter should MV>> still be written on outgoing messages. For the time being...
NB> Probably forever now. The most used softwares these days are not going NB> to remove the level parameter, even though they should.
A relevant question is "how much software actually NEEDS the level parameter to do its job?". Golded does not seem to care about the level parameter on incoming messages. I see no difference in behaviour between messages with "UTF-8 2" and "UTF-8 4".
MV>> It may disappear one day. Or not...
NB> Most likely not.
Fidonet is full of stuff that we would do very different when we were to redo from start now, but that are hard to get rid of.