Gronk!           ...On Aug-25-03, Clyde Moose wrote:

 SM> If MooseChat was "gated" to the alt.moose newsgroup, 
 SM> and alt.moose was made available on groups.google.com 
 SM> if your ISP does not carry it, would you be inclined to 
 SM> participate in MooseChat on a regular basis again?

 CM> Indeed. In fact, you probably wouldn't even need to do 
 CM> that. I have a news reader that works just fine. If I 

There's no need to do which?  I'm reading that as meaning you think we
should "gate" the echo to a UseNet newsgroup, but that
groups.google.com is not personally needed by you.   ( But, I've been wrong
before! :-)

 CM> could find a nice terminal package that would do telnet 
 CM> under Linux, I'd have been here sooner. 

I haven't found one for Linux, either, but then I haven't looked too hard. 
Good luck.

 CM> I don't think there are any fi-doe bbses left in 
 CM> Ottawa. Pity. We have nice swamps.

There is one that should be a local call for you, which coincidentally has
MooseChat because it is the home swamp of "The Three
Mooseketeers".

Here's the appropriate excerpt from the latest BBS List:

                         *  OTTAWA AND AREA  *
---------------------------------------------------------------------
BBS NAME                NUMBER    MODEM SPEED    FIDO   SYSOP NAME(s)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Extreme Impossibility/2 253-1305   28800           Y    Don Guy

 CM> Right now I am doing the best I can using Maximoose FED 
 CM> under console telnet with none of my 
 CM> PgUp/PgDn/End/Bsp/Del keys working right. Gronk, baby, 
 CM> gronk.

What I like about MaxiMoose is the old WordStar "control key"
sequences that is uses.  Takes me back, and also comes
"naturally" to me.  I  haven't tried them using Linux telnet,
tho.  In fact, to comfortable telnet under Linux, I think I would need to
turn off MaxiMoose ANSI display options.

 CM> Say, why not alt.moose.chat?

Mainly because alt.moose is already widely distributed but is not regularly
used by anyone.  So, it's basically "there for the taking" with
no newsgroup creation process needed.  alt.moose.chat would certainly be
more descriptive, but how hard is it to get sysadmins to hook up new alt
hierarchy newsgroups?


Yours in the Way of the Moose,               ...Steve

-
Who was that masked moose?

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