Hey Nick!

Aug 29 22:17 07, Nick Voronin wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>>  and how much of that is native Linux?

 NV> All using smapi + golded for sure. I don't know many linux ftn users 
 NV> anyway. Mostly they are on some version of windows (or write through 
 NV> gates).

I think that has drooped off quite a bit.  Speaking for most in this neck
of the woods, nobody but me and I am seriously thinking about changing
that.

 MK>> Where and by what?

 NV> Filename....: JAM-001
 NV> Rev.........: 001
 NV> Dated.......: 93-07-01
 NV> Status .....: Released
 NV> Subject.....: JAM message base proposal
 NV> Author......: Joaquim Homrighausen
 NV> Co-Authors..: Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, Mats Wallin

Not too old.

 NV> Yes! Yes! Sure! But what it does with direct usage? :) Don't tell me 
 NV> that you really think that anything but plain text is highly unlikely 
 NV> ever be used. :) I don't buy it.

Take a look around.  Most of the messaging going on today is text and also
more minimalistic than I'd even care to go.  Things like "How r
u?", "l8tr", etc.  That is the modern and most used method
these days.  Usually wireless handhelds with itsy-bitsy displays.

Where have you been hiding?

 NV> I think that currently jam is on par with squish or slightly less 
 NV> used, and these two are most used types of messagebases.

By fewer and fewer.

 NV> echoareas that I read a significant amount (if not majority) of users 
 NV> write through various gates. Mind, that doesn't mean that some ftn 
 NV> formats are "obsolete", that means that ftn itself, as a whole, is 
 NV> obsolete.

I honestly think the original idea is closer to what is currently happening
at large and that the current ftn standards are way out of sync.

 NV> ftn in such unfavourable situation. People these days don't like 
 NV> console much :)

Could have fooled me.  Most messaging is closer to ye ol' console style
than what I see happening in Fido today.  Somewhere along the line this all
went awry.

Life is good,
Maurice

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