Re: FTSC-5001 question
  By: Maurice Kinal to Carol Shenkenberger on Tue Oct 21 2014 01:46 am

 CS>> It's pretty much an automated point setup.
 MK> Ah!  I've got something like that going here.  Not really all that
 MK> automated though other than the main poster calling itself 'Guy Robot'. 
 MK> Currently I have to tweak it to actually post and is now running on a
 MK> remote abandoned eeepc.  I did have it running on the wireless mesh
 MK> network but one of my neighbours needed it on hostapd so that he could
get
 MK> online with his iPad.  Unfortunetly iPads are really lame when it comes
to
 MK> configuring them to do anything meaningful on wireless connections. 
 MK> WHAT?!?!?!  No app for Fidonet?

LOL!  That app had a person who was looking into it around 2002/4 or so.  She
was in the FTSC.  It was SMS related and not well explained.  

I think now she wanted a nodelist flag for those providing posts from a BBS to
a smartphone to have a flag but her english was enough off it was really hard
to tell and a lot of people got ideas of what they *thought* she meant and went
'hell no, no BBS on a cell phone' in the nodelist.

Sad really, we do that type of connection to email and text commonly now.

Personnaly, I think we lost out on a tool development when we didnt listen
better.  Maybe her method would not have worked, but it was inceptional
thinking.  Application: pick your favorite group or so and have a copy buzz to
your cell phone if something new is there.  

  xxcarol
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