Subj : Re: 1984.ws
To   : tenser
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Jun 02 2023 12:16 pm

  Re: Re: 1984.ws
  By: tenser to fusion on Fri Jun 02 2023 11:17 pm

 > On 01 Jun 2023 at 07:23p, fusion pondered and said...
 >
 >  fu> On 02 Jun 2023, tenser said the following...
 >  fu>
 >  fu>  te> True; my mistake.  But you did unilaterally
 >  fu>  te> say, "kitty will not work correctly with BBS
 >  fu>  te> systems." which, again, depends on the BBS
 >  fu>  te> system.
 >
 >  fu> http://kirin.dcclost.com/~alex/img_a.jpg
 >  fu> http://kirin.dcclost.com/~alex/img_b.jpg
 >
 >  fu> this is what 99% of the BBSes you will ever call with kitty will look
 >  fu> like vs what they're supposed to look like.
 >
 > One could also just do what the Kitty guy said
 > (admittedly in a jerky way...) and not try to
 > overload bold attributes for bright colors.
 >
 > He was obnoxious about it, but he's not wrong
 > about the technical merits.

History says he's wrong. But it's the hill he's chosen to die on. <shrug>

 >  fu> i think it's a reasonable assertion. if the sysop has no traditional
 >  fu> ansi on the whole board, then thumbs up i guess.
 >
 > Right so...it depends on the BBS system?  :-)

"will not work" is probably too binary an assertion in this case. Different terminals display stuff (colors, fonts, glyphs) differently, but the main features of a BBS should continue to work just fine.
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