Hello Richard !

On 22-May'08 23:33, Richard Webb wrote to Minh Van Le:

 MVL> Man you mean you haven't hooked up NetFOSS or Netserial - 
 MVL> what have you been DOING.

 RW> Nope, not on a dial-up internet connection on one line.

It still would have worked. Heh.

 RW> VOlunteers is more the right word, I object to the "hobby" 
 RW> designation myself. SHall we just say for volunteer 
 RW> emergency communicators .

That would be more sensible.

 RW> I"ll give it some study then, see what happens, but looks 
 RW> like i"ll be running the lnux executables ,g>.

The problem with the Linux version of Maximus is that it's more flakey,
less tested and unsupported.

 RW> True enough, but staying with plain text for most displays, 
 RW> it's about the info, and it's about being able to connect 
 RW> to it with just about anything. IF all you've got is an old 
 RW> 1200 baud modem it has a landline.  No slow to load 
 RW> graphics, no hassles with what plug-ins your browser has.

You don't need plugins for HTML.

There's nothing a BBS can't display that can't be done with HTML.

In an emergency I personally would prefer point'n'click interfaces when
browsing for information instead of telnet.

Up to you.

 RW> From your discussion above it sounds like the linux 
 RW> executable is my way to go here. oR running the dos 
 RW> executable on the 98 machine.

To my knowledge only Netmodem virtual modem will work under Win9x.

 RW> I think option 3 sounds like the way to go here .  Have 
 RW> one linux box anyway that will be networked but have other 
 RW> plans for it.

Just dump everything on one box. 

It's called vertical scaling. Heh.

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