Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: Current supported too
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Sat Jun 22, 2024 09:30

Subject: Re: Current supported tools f
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Subject: Re: Current supported tools f
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-=> MRO wrote to Accession <=-

 MR> I can't find anybody who carries it. i was talking on the telegram
 MR> side. it must look weird on the fido side.

To me, BBSing has been about long-form posting - it's a place to write
well thought out responses in more than 140 characters. Porting Fido to
Telegram is interesting, and it fills a missing niche of FTN on a phone.

If you're looking for a Fido "fix" on a phone, the gated telegram groups
are nice. Posting from Telegram to Fido loses something - people
occasionally post image memes which is relevant to a microblogging
audience, but all a Fido reader sees is an image URL.

I'm my own case here, but downloading QWK packets and reading them with
a console-based QWK reader is what I've done since the mid-90s. I've
tried NNTP, points, web-based fidonet forums and Telegram, but keep
coming back to QWK - despite some obvious limitations.



.... Am I any closer to finding what I'm looking for?
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