On 08 Mar 2022, IB Joe said the following...
 
 IJ> I have a question, g00r00 can answer, or anyone for that matter... Is
 IJ> there any reason why in the year 2022 other BBSes cannot support ANSI in
 IJ> the message bases/readers.

Modern BBS packages support ANSI in the message bases.  Even some "legacy" BBS packages support ANSI in the message bases (some with more success than others) while other BBS packages won't display ANSI at all (showing nothing but garbly goop).

Since this is a federated network and we can't control who sees what on which system we tend to cater to the lowest common denominator.

Some message networks allow ANSI in certain bases only (BBS ads for example)
while others encourage adding an [ANSI] tag in the subject so those that can't display ANSI can skip those messages.


Jay

... By the time most of us have money to burn, our fire's gone out.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/03/04 (Raspberry Pi/32)