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- From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise)
- Subject: Re: bbs standards
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.165852.2689@uvm.edu>
- Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- References: <1992Aug28.2065.678@channel1>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 16:58:52 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- From article <1992Aug28.2065.678@channel1>, by "brian miller" <brian.miller@channel1.com>:
- > 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.
-
- *chuckle* Exactly what I've been trying (perhaps unsuccessfully)
- to say :)
-
- > 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.
- >
- True. While the "howses" and "whatis" of a BBS are determined
- by the user, these "standards" of mail transferal are unfortunately going
- to be forced down our throats like Windows, OS/2 and so many other "standards".
- What do the above see when they look at computer networks and the ways
- that they tranfer mail/files? They see the way the internet does it
- , the way Fidonet does it, and I'm certain there are a few (albiet smaller)
- networks which do it differently!
-
- If we as BBS programmers, and interested operators/users from
- all platforms can get together, say "This is how we are going to transfer
- mail/graphic interfaces/etc", implement it, and truly make it a standard,
- we shouldn't have to put up with MHS/GME, VIM, MAPI (unless of course,
- we WANT to *grin*). If the internet, fidonet, and all of the xxnets are
- linked by the common thread of just message transferal, the corperate
- giants that we dispise so much (yet spend so much on buying their stuff *grin*)
- won't have much of a choice but to go along with it...
-
- TTYL
- Chris
- "Performing an excercise in futility"
-
-