Subj : Re: BBS over web-based ??
To   : Mweeby
From : Sniper
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 10:47 pm

-=> Mweeby wrote to Time Warrior <=-

 Mw>   Re: BBS over web-based ??
 Mw>   By: Time Warrior to Mweeby on Thu Sep 22 2005 09:15 am

 >
 > What issues have you had with Synchronet's web interface (or anything else)
 > that has left you with this opinion? Just curious.
 >
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 > | [TiME WaRRiOR] aka [Dave Kelso] AIM: Twar782 | +o Malkavia BBS |
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 Mw> Well actually now the web interface in it's current incarnation is
 Mw> quite nice, as long as you are using a javascript-capable browser, so
 Mw> for text mode linux, that rules out lynx, but that's ok since I don't
 Mw> use it anyway. Actually IE6 even with a screen reader is quite nice.
 Mw> I haven't checked out the listserver function yet, but the irc support
 Mw> is quite interesting.
 Mw> Perhaps I missunderstood his idea, but if all I had was a Linux box, I
 Mw> could probably do most of the internet except for www.

Huh?  I run Linux, FreeBSD, etc. full time, except for the BBS... I also
run X, and with Firefox, and all the other browsers available, whats to
stop you from doing WWW in Linux?  I do the vast majority via the command
line, this is true, but, with todays web sites, lynx is only good for text
searches, and that rarely.  :)




Sniper
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