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 Message 231 
 Maurice Kinal to mark lewis 
 one last check 
 07 Jun 15 20:14:42 
 
-={ Sunday, 07 June 2015, 16:14:42 -0400 }=-

Hey mark!

 ml> standard FTN binary MSG format or something else?

Absolutely zero binary.  It does use null delimeters though, currently five ->
DateTime\0, To\0, From\0, subject\0 and msg_body\0.  I was thinking of
splitting the tagline, tearline and Origin off into a sixth field and calling
until the node ships it upstream and then and *only* then does the annoying,
unneeded, binary crap leakage into the mix.  :::shudder:::

Also all that gets stripped off and sent to the bitbucket when unpacking. 
Along with most of the hidden info in the msg_body\0 it is complete, utter
garbage.  No?

Way back in the old days one could find themselves in the woodshed for bad
behavior such as putting binary data into headers ... not to mention
compression.  I miss those days.

Life is good,
Maurice

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