🚀 go-pugleaf

steve@presoft.com (Steve Kohlenberger) writes:

> With this information we could record dial in speeds, link to FAX
> gateways, disconnect on too slow connections, and build terminal
> servers and special links to things like SLIP links and PPP.  How
> bout it folks? Anyone want to support dial in TCP/IP Internet?  Of
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> course we would need the capability to return to Waffle when we
> decide the call is not for us...then email or BBS as usual.

Is that really a realistic possibility?  When I see all those
goodies that are available via anonymous ftp I feel like an urchin
watching the rich folks partying through a plate glass window.  If
there was dial in TCP/IP wouldn't that include ftp? I gather from
what I've read that the ftp protocol is similar to Kermit.

> > |There was very little interest when I asked about a fax gateway for
> > |waffle, late last year. Is there more now ?
> 
> Absolutely!

Everybody says that technically fax is really silly and
retrograde, but it seems to be catching on in the business world.
But I haven't seen anything in the scientific or academic or
technical communities built around fax.  (I'm following the
discussion about fax because I'm trying to decide if the next
modem I buy will be a high speed data modem or a combo data and
fax.  I suppose that in a year or so, when I get really tired of
my 2400 baud non-MNP clunker it'll be clear just how necessary it
is to have fax capability.)

Btw, the capability in Waffle I'd like to see even more than
enhanced Internet functionality or fax enablement it a way to
address posts directly to BITNET without going through an Internet
gateway.  I wonder how difficult that would be to do.

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