FTN Standards Supported

Argus interacts with remote systems using protocols and technology standards described in this chapter. Because Argus is built on FTN Technology (FidoNet Technology Network), it supports standards and proposals developed by FTN committee, common standards of FTN mail system functions are also supported by Argus.

This is the list of FTN standards and proposals that Argus is compliant to. Descriptions of those standards can be obtained from ftp://ftp.fidonet.org

The reason to implement FTS-0001 mail session and FTS-0006 handshake is to be Fidonet-Policy compliant. Fidonet is the greatest FTN-based network worldwide. Here is an extract of chapter 2.1.8 Fidonet Policy v4:

Any system which wishes to be a part of FidoNet must be able to receive mail during this time using the protocol defined in the current FidoNet Technical Standards Committee publication (FTS-0001 at this writing). It is permissible to have greater capability (for example, to support additional protocols or extended mail hours), but the minimum requirement is FTS-0001 capability during this one hour of the day.

Note, that there are some limitations in Argus implementation of FTS-0001: