On 10/28/2004 07:40 PM, MARTIJN_DEKKER wrote:


>Sounds promising, I hope it works out! What environment do you think you
>might make it in?
>
>- Martijn
>

Here are some ideas I'm tossing around:

The back end server or servers  must be Mac OS X native applications, that
leverage on existing unix based software as the basis of the mail, news and
web services.  Messages conferences should be capabile of being gated
to/from usenet, fidonet or TFNet, at a minium. I believe that the RFC-822
gateway should be retained, with enhancements to support styled text in the
formats supported by the system, but encoded using multi=part
mime-encoding, so that systems that can use the formatting info through
whatever means they have available will receive it.  I realize this must be
balanced by the increase in message file size, and ability of legacy
systems to be able to filter the peices they cannot use..

The message section back end will probably be a combination of Perl and a
MySQL database. The message section front end will support input,. display
and storage of message formatted in plain text, ANSI text, richtext, HTML,
and styled text compatible with the connecting client.  What the user sees
will be driven both by his connection method, as will as by his personal
preferences.

The file section protocols be FTP pr x/y/zmodem with resume for Internect
connecting clients, JAVA/HTTP/FTP for web based clients and X/Y/ZMODEM (and
perhaps TF/User file protocol) for dial-up clients.  Drag and drop file
transfers of files, and folders in forground or background with resumption
of aborted transfers are a must have.

Realtime multi-user public/private chat with styled text as noted above
within the limits of the connecting clients should supported.  I think this
should be extended to providing chat connections between "neo-TF"
systems too.  Chat should support speech too, on Macs with PlainTalk.


I am not certain of how easy it is to do any of this yet, because I want it
to retain interoperability with legacy TF clients, and  dial-up capability
too.

The Mac OS X client will be a  new application which re-creates the look
and feel of the Mac OSX desktop, in the same sprit as the legacy TF clients
did. I  think the customized settings files should be much easier to create
than those of the old client, but all of  the features should be retained.

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