Subj : Web access, false BBS ID
To   : STEPHEN HURD
From : MICHEL SAMSON
Date : Mon Nov 01 2004 10:58 am

Hi Stephen,

     About "Web access, false BBS ID" of October 30:

MS> ...lived thru times when there were no other way to get `ZMoDem'/
MS> ~TelNet~, ~WEB~ access, ~SSH~ or ~HTTPS~ than to launch `Win 32'...
SH> ...hard for me to believe that no OS except for Win32 was capable...

     I observed problems with every single application i could find, the
best was `IVT for DOS v11.3e' and it interfaced only with `PC/TCP' which
was no free package;  commercial SoftWare like `GLink' was too expensive
just to be used for a hobby - and i won't even mention secure protocols!

SH> Authors/SysOps have no need to support old platforms...

     They don't.  Though, i believe they'd be better fix things as basic
as file transfers because when newbies hit their nose on the glass these
guys can't be expected to display more perseverance than authors/SysOps!

     No need to explore an old hobby which authors/SysOps can't support.

SH> ...quite difficult to find new parts for Edsels.  Why?  Because they
SH> don't make, sell, or "support" them anymore.

     Then let the Edsels be forgotten and the BBSing hobby with it!  The
approach i suggest is different:  make it work 1st, then make it popular
next and lets not drop a few more BBSers each time there's a transition.

                                    Salutations,  :)

                                    Michel Samson
                                    a/s Bicephale
                                    http://public.sogetel.net/bicephale/


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