Hello Paul!

04 Nov 20, Paul Quinn wrote to Kai Richter:

 PQ>>> Further steps will probably require a further integration of
 PQ>>> Fidonet into the collection of internets.

 KR>> ?? What steps? That is already done! All you need to do is to
 KR>> upgrade your software and find an access point. You will have
 KR>> full markup support, real bold italic and underline is no
 KR>> problem, you could integrate pictures, audio and video into your
 KR>> postings. Thousands of Boards are waiting for you.

 PQ> Yes, that is what I intimated.  Have you seen the 'telegrams'?

No. I don't understand telegrams in this context. Intimating fails due to
translation. Sorry.

 PQ> My favourite interface is NNTP.

 PQ> See what I mean(t)?

No. Just update your software to get all new features. Due to age-, support-
and licence-reasons it will be impossible to integrate new stuff into mostly
all fidonet software. There is a high risk that any new feature will break
older existing systems (For example, some multibyte chars will trash my
terminal output completely). If you want features like real bold, italic or
underlined text, or the possibility to display any language symbol in its
original form, want to use pictures, audio or video, or links to other
postings, then upgrade to the new protocols.

If you could do internet and fidonet integration, where will be the difference
then? It will be a part of the bigger thing and it will lose it's identity.

If you got a working integration then you could use both protocols within one
software. But if your software could do HTML5 tagged text why should you change
back to ascii if any other software can read HTML5 due to full integration?
There is none, the users will be too lazy to switch back to the old standard,
never change a running setting. The result would be that the old standard
became obsolete completely. That's why an integration of fidonet into internets
will be a wasted efford.

And uhh, sorry for offtopic.

Regards

Kai

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