Maurice, you may or not be interested in being made aware of this:
https://github.com/RealDeuce/tith
TITH is a modern store-and-forward protocol for FidoNet Technology Networks. >It combines a small set of versioned standards with a Rust reference mailer, >with the goal of making secure FTN transport straightforward to implement and >interoperate with.
The project starts from a deliberately simple premise: define one canonical >representation, authenticate every peer and payload, and keep legacy >conversion at an explicit boundary instead of carrying historical ambiguity >into the native protocol.
By the maintainer of Syncterm
It's not quite done yet.
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