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Hank Johnson?

So I've been meaning to write at least some small note of introduction for a while now but just haven't had the time. But I was reading something this morning and was reminded of the word 'kludge' and wondered if this had ever been mentioned or considered in reference to Klue?  It's nothing monumental in the long run but it's certainly interesting enough. Especially as it has computer science connotations and goes back to the old FidoNet days. "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." [That bit was from an old Usenix conference talk from 1998. The PDF is unrelated but the link is here: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/freenix/crosser.pdf ] In looking at the Wikipedia entry for 'kludge' I...