Subj : Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit
To   : Stephen Hurd
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Sat Nov 27 2004 10:45 pm

-=> Quoting Stephen Hurd to Nancy Backus on 11-23-04  11:51 <=-

 SH> Re: Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit SABOT
 SH> By: Nancy Backus to Stephen Hurd on Mon Nov 22 2004 23:35:03
 
 > In my case, it wasn't what I wanted so much as what I needed.  I was
 > very thankful to find that 7-bit paranoid Kermit available when it was,
 > so that I was* able to upload my message reply packets, and not have to
 > enter messages online.  Now that hubby has replaced TCPPort in our
 > set-up with his TelNetPort, things work a lot better, and I can now use
 > Zmodem for my telnet uploads as well, and still entirely work in DOS. :)

 SH> Out of curiosity, was FTP or HTTP not an option?

Even now, I do almost no web.  I had barely learned about telnet (which,
if set up for one well enough, works essentially as a variant of dial-up
as far as accessing the bbs is concerned), and was, and still am, doing
it all solely in DOS.  All this computer stuff is akin to magic as far
as I'm concerned...  I may be a sorcerer's apprentice, and may sound as
though I understand what I'm doing once I've done it enough, but that's
about it...  The wizard keeps it all running... and knows better than to
try to overload me with too many new "magic spells" at once... <G>

So, to answer the question...  Maybe FTP or HTTP could have been an
option, but, as far as I was concerned, not really.

Also, my main concern was to continue getting message packets from the
offline mail doors on the BBS, and to reply via the reply packets for
the same, having read/replied offline.  Would that have been do-able via
FTP and HTTP, especially still using my Bluewave Reader?

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