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- Path: sparky!uunet!channel1![brian.miller@channel1.com]
- From: "brian miller" <brian.miller@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: bbs standards
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.2065.678@channel1>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 19:58:35 EST
- Reply-To: "brian miller" <brian.miller@channel1.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
- Lines: 34
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- -> Perhaps you'd care to consider some real dial-up text/file services
- -> (like CIS or Delphi) rather than the "multi-line" bbs's most persons
- -> have in mind (dinky little six or twelve line systems, as compared to
- -> hundreds of lines).. any guesses as to the system hardware/software
- -> they use? I'd lay you some very good odds they're not running on a
- -> stinkin' PC with MS-DOS! (And that would be highly unfair, at least
- -> insofar as Delphi is concerned, as I already know
-
- Compuserve? Genie? Delphi?
-
- Gee, Willard, I thought we were talking about *BBS's*. I
- guess both you and Larry should sit down and read a good BBS list.
- Neither of you has apparently had any contact with DOS BBS's in
- 3 or 4 years. Try the USBBS list. Count the number of multi-line
- BBS's, compare it to Nixpub, and get back to us.
-
- -> Who cares? What does selection of OS have to do with any discussion
- -> of so-called "BBS standards?" Just what aspects of bbs
- -> operation/implementation would we need to have standardized? What
- -> would be the benefits and drawbacks to accepting those standards?
- -> What hidden agendas are at work? Is there a conspiracy? Can it
- -> possibly get more interesting?
-
- It's always interesting how everyone views the world through their
- own little window. Internet is just another somewhat larger window.
- RFC "standards" have about as much chance of prevailing as Fidonet
- .msg format.
-
- Novell (MHS/GME), Lotus (VIM) and Microsoft (MAPI) will determine
- the future of electronic mail standards. Gateways and X.400 will
- glue it all together.
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