Subj : promotion, nostalgia, the future
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Feb 03 2021 15:33:57

On 02 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...
 AA> Quite understandble. I hope you have somehow settled into a  
 AA> comfortable new-normal now that your wife is back home and the  
 AA> intensity and the unknowns of the initial post-op situation is  
 AA> less stressful.

Mostly. We had a small scare with 2nd hand Covid exposure. My step daughter
had checked on an elderly friend of hers, then came to check on my wife.  a
couple of days later her friend called to inform her that he tested positive
for the virus.  So we had a few stressful days waiting to see if any of us
developed symptoms. Luckily all 3 of us are not showing any signs, and my
wife has been to her doctor for a follow up and is clear.  

 AA> The flipping from H for reading (to get a full unwrapped view of  
 AA> a message) and V for typing (because a virtual keyboard is less  
 AA> intrusive of the viewing screen) seems to be the only way when  
 AA> dealing with a smartphone.
 AA> 
 AA> At least the flipping is possible with Telegram. My  
 AA> understanding is that Aftershock and HotDogEd only operate in  
 AA> the vertical?
 
I believe thats the case, but both do a good job of wrapping for reading, so
not an issue for me.  Their quoting on replies can get messy though.
 AA> ANSI and RIP would certainly be a problem in Telegram, as they  
 AA> are also a problem in many normal fidonet echos.  Besides, the  
 AA> "art" doesn't always render properly at other BBSes either.  I  
 AA> doubt that ANSI and RIP define BBS messaging as much as they  
 AA> demonstrate some retro technology.

Not so much, except for ads.

 AA> As for my initial concern about limited echos for compatibility  
 AA> with Telegram, that was based on my experience with the desktop  
 AA> app (it has a non-changeable viewing panel - it's always a  
 AA> maximum of approx 65 chars) and the phone app on my 2"x2"  
 AA> Blackberry phone is not flippable - it doesn't even entertain  
 AA> the dynamic option to flip even though it wouldn't make a  
 AA> difference on my phone.  I came to realize that I was probably  
 AA> the only one using a 2"x2" screen. Everybody else has more  
 AA> modern phones with 16:9 screens - that is probably why nobody  
 AA> weighed in with saying anything bad about the viewing experience  
 AA> of WIDE fixed-width echomails.

I still don't see a reason to flip to read, but that's just my preference zi
suppose.

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