HECTOR SANTOS wrote:
But the old school FTN net police insisted on FTN1 and rejected
applications, registrations of any person installing newer and
better software if it didn't have FTN1 support.
Nobody was forced to use it for sending mail, unless that person
was a *C obliged to test that applicants can receive FTN1 mails.
I needed FTN1 for crash mails (rarely, but still).
The one thing the FTSC had control of was the NodeList
Nope. The FTSC was the standards committee, like IETF/IESG/IAB.
The NodeLists were controlled by the *Cs (ultimately the ZCs of
the relevant zones), that's like ICANN. The FTSC controlled the
definition of the nodelist format (in theory, never changed in
my time), not the content.
Frank