Subj : Re: In the future..
To   : Dan Richter
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Mon Jun 08 2020 12:50 pm

-=> On 06-07-20 10:37, Dan Richter wrote to mark lewis <=-

 DR> To the best of my knowledge there are a few people out there working on
 DR> different ways of implementing FTN technology, but they keep running
 DR> into resistance from the "legacy support" individuals.

Simple, have the more modern software able to downgrade to "pure legacy" for
links to those old systems.  In the new FTNs, legacy systems will probably be
unable to fully route all of the extensions, and certainly wouldn't be able to
import them.  Part of the compromise may be that legacy systems can only be
leaf nodes, unless they're feeding other systems that don't care about the more
modern BBS formats.  The new systems should still be able to import and render
the text of legacy formats, and maybe even render emoticons/emojis that have
text representations, so those users don't have to remember what ;) or 3:-)
mean. :D


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