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- From: bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: The HYDRA bidirectional file transfer protocol.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.113823.8739@sth.frontec.se>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:38:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.122836.14295@sth.frontec.se> <1jimnsINNt6i@uwm.edu>
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- gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
- > In my view, JoHo has poorly supported existing standards, and he's
- > been real pig-headed on complying with them. So my worry is that this
- > protocol could become a standard in being non-standard. This protocol
- > would end up diversifying, in my opinion, into two levels--the
- > protocol, and then all of the kludges you need to insert INTO the
- > protocol to get it to work correctly with JoHo's stuff.
-
- Have you even looked at the protocol?
- You seem to draw an awful lot of conclusions on the future of hobby tele-
- communications just because a name is included in a text file somewhere.
-
- > My gripe isn't with the protocol, it's with the fear that this
- > protocol, with potential to become extremely popular due to its
- > nature, may end up becoming a big mistake in general.
-
- Right. We might now actually have a GOOD protocol become POPULAR. Ordinary,
- this would have been a Good Thing (tm) but since a certain name is mentioned
- it's all of a sudden a disaster...
-
- > I would sooner see a different protocol, a protocol that wasn't based
- > on ZModem, make its way into the public realm.
-
- I bid you welcome to design a better one. I shall happily support you in your
- work and in the spreading of the protocol.
- Until you have released such a protocol, however, I would personally
- appreciate arguments concerning the procotol's pros and cons and not the
- authors'.
-
- > Again, this is just my humble opinion.
-
- Of course. And mine.
-
- -- Bjorn
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