BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (093)
De:       Wilfred van Velzen
Data:     Mon, 6 Apr 2026 21:48:12 +0200
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Hi Michiel,

On 2026-04-06 14:33:50, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>>> Plus that in the far future it will be even less usable because
 MvdV>>> it does not support IPv6. ;-)

 WV>> The very distant future. ;-)

 MvdV> In 1999, I thought Fidonet would be dead by the time the real 21th century
 MvdV> began. 1 jan 2001. That was a quarter of a century ago. So Fidonet might live
 MvdV> for another quarter of a century and live to see the death of IPv4... ;-)

I don't think IPv4 will ever die completely, at least not in the foreseeable future.

 MvdV> Speaking about extra work. In FIDOTEST a missing TZUTC kludge was
 MvdV> mentioned and someone called that nitpicking. Fmail has an option to
 MvdV> sort new incoming messages on date/time. I have disabled it because
 MvdV> in my experience it makes thing worse most of the time.

I have it turned on, as long as I'm using FMail I suppose. I haven't noticed any downside. But fidonet messages tend to come in 1 at a time mostly, so it won't make much difference anyway.

 MvdV> But... if it could sort on UTC instead of sender's local time it
 MvdV> might be useful...

I'll put it on my list. I already did a similar thing in another piece of software (python script). I even made a Net to TZ table for messages that don't have a TZUTC kludge. So atleast an educated guess for the correct TZ could be made.

Bye, Wilfred.

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