Text 8035, 133 rader
Skriven 2006-11-17 18:13:08 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 8028 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: compress.cfg
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Hey mark!

Nov 17 06:32 06, mark lewis wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 ml> you are making an effort in explaining it, i appreciate that...

Not to worry about it.

 ml> i'm not so sure about most configurations being text based... i was 
 ml> seeing and using binary configurations long before i ran into my 
 ml> first text based one...

I avoid those.

 ml> how many of those what?? Type 2, 2+ and 2.0 are all still in use, as 
 ml> far as i know... that's three type 2 variants...

Okay.  You don't say how many but I'lol take your word that it is in at least
some usage there.

 ml> unfortunately, that is also not so much of a good thing... if you 
 ml> keep closing all the doors and cutting off access, you won't see the 
 ml> things that are going on and how they are being used ;)

I don't cut off anything.  My point is that NOBODY uses or even can use Fido
formats here locally.

 ml> those... everyone else used the bbs...

Now we're getting somewhere.  How many do you have there?  The last one I had
via a traditional POTs terminal BBS was roughly ten years ago.  I have been
considering putting up something but it'll have to be totally different given
what is in usuage these days.

 ml> no... the users all left for the internet because of the features... 
 ml> features that you eschew all the time... graphics, streaming video, 
 ml> music, pointy clicky stuff, etc...

Right.  I've managed to get that type of stuff working without having any of it
myself other then the ones I want on the commandline (multimedia stuff which I
hardly use but it is nice to have every now and then).

 ml> abandon our existing methods just because others use another method 
 ml> that is now more widespread and in more use??

widespread and in more use??  Really.  Could have fooled me.  Seems to me next
to nobody given the increase in worldwide population.  I guesstimate
.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% or less. 
Locally, perhaps the ENTIRE Vancouver Island, 0%.  Not nearly what I would term
'widespread and in more use' by any stretch of the imagination.

 ml> hunh?? your feeds can't ship you raw PKTs??

I am not positive about can't but I am positive about won't.  Probably too much
of a hassel.

 ml> BS... what tossers are they using??

I think one uses Gecho the other BBBS.

 ml> how much traffic are you pulling?

Not much.  I am seriously thinking about dropping out but will wait and see as
I will eventually redo the main connected guy here and am not sure I will worry
about compliancy for the little I get.  Probably will drop the node and keep
just the point as that doesn't need a connected mailer.  Right now I am not in
any rush to make a decision and have already decided that the next upgrade
won't have a mailer so the node will have to go then.
 
 ml> what format would you prefer if not zip?? is it a format that is 
 ml> supported on their platform??

You'd have to ask them.  I asked for raw pkt's but no luck.  It is what I ship
out though as I don't support creation of any compression other then gzip or
bzip2 and actually don't need compression as there isn't much traffic to bother
with.  Definetly more hassel no matter what format then it is worth.

 ml> hehehe... and here i am with several local guys, all running linux of 
 ml> one flavor or another, and they are all looking for linux compatible 
 ml> modems so they can provide dialup access and not _have_ to have 
 ml> internet...

What is wrong with pppd?  I haven't used it in over a decade now but it used to
work.

 ml> you don't get out much do you? drop into the cooking echo and take a 
 ml> peek about...

I used to.  Not much of a cook anymore.

 MK>> I'd say less then that but we'll see.  Prove me wrong.  I double
 MK>> dare you!!!  ;-)

 ml> hahaha... well, in 31-32 years, the existing C time code will fall 
 ml> over and that's the main thing i was looking at... until then, folk 
 ml> will try to fit stuff into what they like and many like BW and other 
 ml> QWK/BW readers...

Nobody like that in this neck of the woods.

 ml> ever hear of Waffle BBS written by tom dell?

Sounds vaguely familiar.  I haven't been looking lately.  More interested in
getting the basics working and playing around with networking ideas.  Been
toying with netpipes off and on.  Those sorts of things.

 MK>> Right.  When the cat is away ...

 ml> what mice are there to be playing??

EXACTLY!!!  Yeah.  Oh well.

 ml> what mailers are being used around there?? bink stuff?

Zero, ziltch, nada.

 ml> you'll have to watch it and see...

I still haven't taken care of that functionality in the latest stable build. 
Maybe later.

 ml> involved in the artscene stuff? what about HPAC? or have you always 
 ml> been just a bit-twiddler? ;)

Moreso a bit-twiddler these days.  I used to write software but since taking up
GNU-ish Linux I haven't needed to write software as it already does what I need
a computer to do.  Could never say the same about any other OS.

Life is good,
Maurice

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