Subj : interesting concept
To   : Thomas W. Mueller
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Jun 18 2001 01:56 am

Hey Thomas!

Jun 17 21:09 01, Thomas W. Mueller wrote to Maurice & Russ:

 > you two were talking about how to use new technology and concepts for 
 > Fidonet. I just found something that is very interesting on 
 > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki? (don't forget the ? at the end). It is an 
 > interactive website where everybody can change or delete existing pages 
 > and write new ones.

Not unlike what can be done with text files over the internet?  Personally I 
don't use html at all even though I have that capability.  I'd prefer keeping 
text files as text files and then formatting them to whatever is wanted after 
that.  I can see how Perl would fit in perfectly towards that end and thus a 
BBS, or even end user, has far greater control what the end result will appear 
and behave like on their system and, in the case of a BBS, what it looks like 
on a terminal/browser/whatever so that users of that BBS can use whatever 
they're using and don't require any additional software to do Fido messaging or 
reading (<- in the case of a news-type echo).  Greater control over formatting 
is the key and a pkt <-> whatever filter would be of greater value then any 
past/current/(maybe future) Fido editor and other software.

Regards,
Maurice

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