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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: NICHOLAS BOEL
date: 2016-03-01 07:34:00
subject: Re: just testing ........

Hello Maurice,

On 01 Mar 16 03:03, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> Netmail sent..

 MK> Got it!  Thank you again.

Of course.

 NB>> I currently still run a BBS here which has regular users.

 MK> I am not sure I've ever tried it.  I do recall you recommending one
 MK> that could handle utf8 characters though.

While at the moment, it's not UTF-8 capable, accessing the message bases with
Golded and nano does indeed allow me to read/write in UTF-8.

From what I remember, there is indeed plans for UTF-8 in the future of my
current BBS software, though!

 NB>> there's still a decent number of them out there. :)

 MK> Not around here.  I count zero although I have a wireless machine that
 MK> could be turned into a local access BBS.  At the moment I use it for
 MK> experimenting with text message exchanges using linux terminals which
 MK> is not unlike a BBS.

After all, tinkering like that is how most sysops decided to become sysops in
the first place. :)

Regards,
Nick

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