Subj : don't cry for me I have vi
To   : tony summerfelt
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed Mar 30 2005 05:34 pm

 MK> Maybe the www but unlikely the internet itself.  Saying the internet
 MK> killed Fido is like saying the telephone killed ham radio.  Not
 MK> likely.

 ts> as radio came after telephone that analogy is flawed...
 ts> it's like the cd killing vinyl... :)

That is also flawed.  Fido would have to be those cylindrical spinney, crank-up 
dealies from way back when, technologically-speaking, which plays right into my 
original statement that Fido stagnated and failed to advance, which then makes 
one wonder how it can be considered a computer hobby.  PC's and digital 
communication evolved, why not Fido?  What happened or failed to happen?

 ts> it can be completely transparent to the user...you run the jam/nntp
 ts> server on your system, user reads his favorite echoes with his favorite
 ts> ng reader...

More or less.  I'd be inclined to keep "origin" lines and the such and have 
them visable as they currently are.

 ts> it takes work to make vim that way...

No it doesn't.  I am using it fine as we speak.  The real work is making Fido 
messages work with vim and not the other way around.

 ts> vim i use for editing perl programs :)

That goes without saying.  What else would you use for that?

 ts> i did have the start of a perl/tk msg reader/tosser/scanner that only
 ts> required binkd (or a mailer) to work...didn't want to put any more
 ts> effort into fido at that point...

Right.  I am more or less at that stage.  I think what I'll try is a web based 
thingy as well as the email dealie and see where that goes, if anywhere.

- Maurice

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