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. --- end of file "fsc-0046.005" ---
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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- !!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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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" ---Go Back