-=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 07-30-05  01:00 <=-

 NB> that way... probably my local Wizard could figure it out and teach me,
 NB> but there's no need to trade my set of issues for a NEW, unknown set,
 NB> as far as I am concerned... 

 DC> You are probably doing that already but you didn't notice that 
 DC> seamless change.  
 
When I shifted from dial-up to telnet, there were new spells I had to
learn to get to the bbs's...  but at least the bbs itself was the same
as usual...  :)   Not exactly a seamless change.

 NB> My original point was merely that you, as a point, have a different
 NB> set of issues that us users do, even when we end up using the same
 NB> (wonderful) software to read and answer the messages that we get by
 NB> our different means.

 DC> Unless you are going on-line and hitting all the commands to get your 
 DC> mail downloaded, you are a Point, for all intents and purposes.  

But I *am* going on-line and hitting all the commands to get my mail
downloaded, same as always.  The only bbs for which that isn't totally
true is Chowdanet, from which I get the packets as email attachments,
which Craig set up earlier when the bbs wasn't really online, but to
make sure that some of us wouldn't be left without our Fido source.  I
left it in place as a backup, which has turned out handy right now, when
Chowda can't be accessed again for a while, but I even there often get
the packets directly from the bbs as normal... and I only send out the
reps from there from online, uploading an offline-prepared rep packet.

I haven't yet learned the spells for getting things from the web side of
things, nor am I in any hurry to do so... Telnet works just fine, and
the bbs looks/acts normal once I'm on, so why change....?

No, I'm just an old-fashioned user, that happens to have had to learn
the more modern telnet way of getting TO the bbs...  :)

ttyl         neb

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