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to: mark lewis
from: Alan Ianson
date: 2019-04-05 12:51:20
subject: a sense of belonging

>it'll be hard to see on a standard 80x25 terminal screen... if the terminal is
> wider than 80 columns, it should be easier to see since it is forced
>wordwrapping to fit within 80... i'd guess that 120x25 would work to try to se
> it as long as the BBS software doesn't try to format it for you on
> transmission...

Ah.. my terminal is 80x30 lines so I wouldn't see that. I can set the width and
 length of my screen in BBBS so I'll try that out in a wider screen in an
xsession and have a look.

>of course, having the raw PKTs would tell the real story, too... especially th
> one coming in and one going out where the message could be compared at a
> digital level...

Yes, I did that at one time for reasons I don't remember anymore. When I was
looking at seen by lines in Z21 I was running my buns off trying to get to
pkt's befor the tosser got to them. :)

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