Document: FSC-0046
Version: 005
Date: 30-Aug-94
A Product Idenfifier for FidoNet Message Handlers
Joaquim Homrighausen
2:270/17@fidonet or joho@abs.lu
August 30, 1994
Copyright 1994 Joaquim Homrighausen; All rights reserved.
Status of this document:
This FSC suggests a proposed protocol for the FidoNet(r) community,
and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
Distribution of this document is unlimited.
Fido and FidoNet are registered marks of Tom Jennings and Fido
Software.
Purpose
This document should serve as a guide for the product identfier, PID
hereafter, format for FidoNet message handlers. The purpose behind PIDs
is related to my attempt to remove the requirement of Origin lines in
conference mail messages.
While I fully understand that this won't happen in all conferences, I
would like to provide the facility to those who can use it (i.e. for
conferences where all the participants are using software that supports
messages without origin lines).
Another use for PIDs is to minimize the excessive amount of information
some programs put on the tear lines which increases overall
transportation cost and time of conference mail.
PID
A PID replaces the program identifier often seen on the tear line of
conference mail messages and is hidden behind a ^A (ASCII SOH, 01h).
This also allows for better tracking of software causing problems in
conferences.
: Only one PID per message is allowed and should only be added by the
: program that creates the message. I.e. programs passing the message on
: to someone else may not add additional PIDs. If a PID is added, no
: program information may be present after the tear line.
A PID also offers the ability to add serial numbers to identify a
specific copy of a program as being the source of a message with little
or no effort.
Format
^APID: [ ]
Sample
^APID: FM 2.11.b
Would identify FrontDoor's editor, beta version 2.11 and replace:
--- FM 2.11 (beta)
Fields
pID The ID of the product responsible for creating the message.
This should be kept as short as possible. The maximum
length for this field is 10 characters.
version The version of the product including any alpha, beta, or
gamma status. Only the relevant part of the version should
be included. I.e. 1.00 should be expressed as 1, 1.10 as
1.1 and 1.01 as 1.01. Alpha, beta, or gamma status should
be expressed by appending a / or . followed by a, b, or g
and optionally a revision indicator, such as a1, b2, etc.
The maximum length for this field is 10 characters.
serial# The serial number of the product, omitted if irrelevant
or zero. The maximum length for this field is ten (10)
characters.
TID
TIDs or "Tosser IDs" started to appear shortly after the first
revision of this document was released. They are added by Conference
Mail ("EchoMail") processors when a message is exported from the
local message base and injected into the network distribution scope
for a conference.
When a Conference Mail processor adds a TID to a message, it may not
add a PID. An existing TID should, however, be replaced. TIDs follow
the same format used for PIDs, as explained above.
List of products
The accompanying file, PIDLIST.TXT, is a list of products known to
support the PID proposal. Software authors are encouraged to inform
the author of this document of changes and additions to this list.
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Document: PIDLIST.TXT (FSC-0046)
Date: 30-Aug-94
A list of used product idenfifiers
Joaquim Homrighausen
2:270/17@fidonet or joho@abs.lu
Product identifiers
Product Version ID Author
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!!MessageBase 1.6+ !!MB Holger Lembke 2:240/500.20
Alert 2.1+ Alert Richard Kail 2:310/25.2
ANet 921213+ ANet Thomas Ekstroem 2:201/411
ArcMail RISC OS 1.04+ AM Philip Blundell 2:440/34.4
Artmail Mailer System 1.00+ ART Klaus Landefeld 2:247/402
Auto Message Taker 1.00+ AMT Patrik Torstensson n/a
AVALON 3.10+ AVALON Stephan Slabihoud 2:2401/103.6
CrossPoint 2.10+ XP Peter Mandrella 2:243/97.80
EchoSprint 1.02+ ES Ben Elliston 3:620/262
Enhanced Mail MAnager .01+ EMMA Johan Zwiekhorst 2:292/118
Enhanced Message EDitor .02+ EMED Johan Zwiekhorst 2:292/118
EZMail .67+ EZMail Torben Paving 2:234/41
F_POINT 1.1+ F_POINT Florian Rupp 2:248/107.2
FastEcho 1.21a+ FastEcho Tobias Burchhardt 2:245/39
FileScan 1.5+ FileScan Matthias Duesterhoeft 2:241/4513
Freqit (Windows) 1.0+ FIW Marvin Hart 1:106/462
Freqit (MS-DOS) 1.0+ FID Marvin Hart 1:106/462
FrontDoor APX 1.00+ FDAPX Joaquim Homrighausen 2:270/17
FrontDoor (Editor) 2.00+ FM Joaquim Homrighausen 2:270/17
FrontDoor (Mailer) 2.00+ FD Joaquim Homrighausen 2:270/17
FrontEnd FX 1.00+ FEFX Eric Theriault 1:132/220
GEcho 1.00+ GE Gerard van der Land 2:2802/110
GeeMail 2.00+ GeeMail Lech Szychowski 2:480/4.7
HbToSca 1.00+ HTS Jani Laatikainen 2:220/150
HyperBBS 2.00+ HyperBBS Jani Laatikainen 2:220/150
JetMail 1.00+ JetMail Daniel Roesen 2:243/93.8
LazyBBS .5+ LazyBBS Franck Arnaud 2:320/100
Mail FX 1.00+ MFX Eric Theriault 1:132/220
MsgTrack 3.20+ MT Andrew Farmer 1:243/1
NewsFlash 1.01+ NwF Chris Lueders 2:2402/330
NodeDiff Processor 3.00+ NDP Serge Vikulov 2:5080/5
Notify 2.1 Notify Frank Schuhardt 2:247/160
OFFFax 3.03 OFFFax Frank Schuhardt 2:247/160
Pobble 0.15+ Pobble Josh Parsons 3:771/340
QBBed 2.64+ qbbed Werner Berghofer 2:310/90.100
RemoteAccess 1.10+ RA Andrew Milner 2:270/18
RASS 1.00+ RASS Yossi Gottlieb 2:403/139.75
SendFile 1.00+ SendFile Mike Shoyher 2:5020/17.3
Synchronet 1.00+ SYNC Rob Swindell 1:103/705
TB-Edit 1.10+ TB-Edit Arjen Lentz 2:283/512
TB-Mailer 1.97+ TB-Mailer Arjen Lentz 2:283/512
TB-Point .10+ TB-Point Arjen Lentz 2:283/512
TechBBS 1.00 TECHBBS Marcel Tegelaar 2:281/409
TechMail 1.00 TECHMAIL Raymond van der Holst 2:281/409.2
TosScan 1.10+ TosScan Joaquim Homrighausen 2:270/17
TPCS .89b TPCS Krister Hansson-Renaud 2:201/201.7
Mikael Kjellstrom 2:201/201.10
XRobot 3.00+ XRobot Joaquim Homrighausen 2:270/17
Xrs Alternative Packer 1.04+ XAP Jeroen Smulders 2:512/1.8
ZeroToss 1.00 ZeroToss Jeff Masud 1:103/115
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Product identifier registration
Simply fill in the required information and send this form to the author of
this document via private netmail.
Product: _________________________________________
Version: __________
PID info: _________________________________________
Author: _________________________________________
Address: ___________________________ (eMail address)
--- end of file "pidlist.txt" ---
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