Text 91, 53 rader
Skriven 2004-09-06 23:42:54 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/401.1)
     Kommentar till text 90 av Andy Alt (1:14/250)
Ärende: Re: ssh
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Hey Andy!

Sep 06 22:33 04, Andy Alt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 AA> I was just going off your topic, Maurice. :)

Oh sure, blame it on me.  Typical user faulting the sysop for everything.

 AA> Naw, again, I was going on a tangent. Just thinking, it's funny that 
 AA> most 
 AA> sysops want to promote *their* BBS, but not BBS'ing general,

I don't mind doing that but then again I don't mind using other's BBS's either.
 In fact I prefer being a user over a sysop.  Where our heads are at here we
just thought something at least BBS-ish might be useful over the wireless,
especially for databasing a file list so that we reduce redundancy.  My
neighbour and I both are playing around with Linux and are more or less
duplicating the same archives so if we have a common area we could save some
bytes between us.  A BBS format for {up,down}loads seems like a good idea and
we both like BBS's.  If something beyond just that springs out of it then
great.  He is one of the other points off the Fido node here.

 AA> The effect would be the same eventually, a dwindling user base 
 AA> and BBS awareness in people who would otherwise *enjoy* BBS'ing.

Right.  That seems to be the case.

 AA> What I want from a BBS? I still can't think of anything. :) Isn't 
 AA> there 
 AA> someone else that reads this echo to pick up my slack? :)

Nope.

 AA> If you're looking for ideas though, how about a BBS that can be 
 AA> accessed 
 AA> from one of those cell phones with Internet access? Has that been 
 AA> done 
 AA> yet?

Sort of.  Text messaging would be simular to BBS messaging.  Also I noticed
years ago that people were connecting to servers somewhere to get things like
sports scores, stock market info, etc. and thought at the time it didn't look
that much different from a BBS except smaller.  Seems to me that it is quite
doable.  Same with handhelds.  I even noticed they have telnet.

The question I have about the above is would I want/use anything like that? 
Not likely.  Neat idea though.  I could see where some might find it handy.

Life is good,
Maurice

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