B5Gid
Author: Vasiliy Stashkevich (Василий Сташкевич)
Date:
Tags: #character, #gaming, #russian
B5Gid is a code intended for players of the echo conference
ru.babylon5.game. From a machine translation of the document:
This document was developed for the RU.BABYLON5.GAME echo conference (a role-playing game based on the Babylon 5 series).
The code is intended to convey your character’s appearance to other game participants. The completed code can be pasted into an email template or hidden as a kludge. In my opinion, with approximately the same length, the code is much more informative than the kludges allowed by the 5 kludge conference rules.
Kludges, in the FIDOnet protocol, are analogous to email headers or representations of email headers:
The same way RFC headers of an Internet message that cannot be mapped to the elements of an Fidonet message are converted into so called “kludges” that are special lines in a Fidonet message designed to carry information invisible by default to the end user.
Example
B5Gid(1.3) Rh|v.A-|?|!!!.B=|--.SP+.EbkD+.Hbk+.Wt1p.Op1о
Details
Found on:
- ru.babylon5.game (FidoNet)
Linked from:
- Marїnais' private echo (Russian, more info)
Articles and pages:
- Официальный FAQ эхоконференции RU.E.LETTER (, ) - Official FAQ of the echoconference RU.E.LETTER
- Geek-код on ru.wikipedia.org
- Электронная идентификация личности () - Site about "Electronic Identification of Person" by Сергей Ермаков (Sergey Ermakov)
Added to sig.codes:
2025-03-16
Known versions
Version 1.0 ():
- Specification: fido7.ru.babylon5.game (canonical, Russian)
Version 1.2 ():
- Specification: fido7.ru.babylon5.game (canonical, Russian)
Version 1.3 ():
- Specification: fido7.ru.babylon5.game (canonical, Russian)
- Specification: nzdr.ru (mirror, Russian) - Requires Cyrillic encoding Windows-1251
- Specification: ecode.lapin.ru (mirror, Russian, )
Timeline
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