-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to ANDY ALT <=-

 MK> Hey Andy!

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

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

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

Was more like I had *fallen* off your topic, and was talking about 
something else at that point. :)

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


 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?

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

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

I don't know. I have never used a cell phone. I doubt if I would until the 
cell phone companies got smart and got rid of the annual contracts 
required upon signing up for their service for the very first time. 
Perhaps someone should introduce them to the concept of shareware.
 
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