Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (010)
To   : Tommi Koivula
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Jan 12 2025 22:17:12

Hello Tommi,

On Sunday January 12 2025 16:13, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Anyway, Xenia is a quarter of a century old. It was designed for
 MV>> POTS. I am not sure his FTP implementation would work to
 MV>> satisfaction in today's environment. Actually I doubt it.

 TK> Oh, But it works. I just sent crashmail to 31:31/2 and got a file on
 TK> hold.. :)

So it works in the lab. That is not the same as "to satisfaction in today's environment".

One can still make a T-Ford run on a closed circuit. Wonderfull piece of machinery. But I would not drive it on a public road today...

 TK> 16:11:28 XEN  Exit requested from keyboard 12 Jan 16:11:28 XEN  Xenia
 TK> Mailer 1.98.06+ OS/2 : end (10)

 TK> It seems that I really need to set up a real link over ftp... ;)

To do what? Convince me that FTP is a good idea for Fidonet? No way José. Xenia and OS/2 were great. For the previous century. I have used OS/2 and I liked it. It had a near perfect DOS emulator. FrontDoor ran without problems. It even ran Flight Simulator. I really liked it. But I dropped it when I could not make it work with Novell (Personal) Netware. That was over 25 years ago. I am not going back. Not even if it would do IPv6. Which it doesn't and pobably never will.


Cheers, Michiel

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