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-> Perhaps you'd care to consider some real dial-up text/file services
-> (like CIS or Delphi) rather than the "multi-line" bbs's most persons
-> have in mind (dinky little six or twelve line systems, as compared to
-> hundreds of lines).. any guesses as to the system hardware/software
-> they use?  I'd lay you some very good odds they're not running on a
-> stinkin' PC with MS-DOS!  (And that would be highly unfair, at least
-> insofar as Delphi is concerned, as I already know

Compuserve?  Genie?  Delphi?

Gee, Willard, I thought we were talking about *BBS's*.  I
guess both you and Larry should sit down and read a good BBS list.
Neither of you has apparently had any contact with DOS BBS's in
3 or 4 years.  Try the USBBS list.  Count the number of multi-line
BBS's, compare it to Nixpub, and get back to us.

-> Who cares?  What does selection of OS have to do with any discussion
-> of so-called "BBS standards?"  Just what aspects of bbs
-> operation/implementation would we need to have standardized?  What
-> would be the benefits and drawbacks to accepting those standards?
-> What hidden agendas are at work?  Is there a conspiracy?  Can it
-> possibly get more interesting?

It's always interesting how everyone views the world through their
own little window.  Internet is just another somewhat larger window.
RFC "standards" have about as much chance of prevailing as Fidonet
.msg format.

Novell (MHS/GME), Lotus (VIM) and Microsoft (MAPI) will determine
the future of electronic mail standards.  Gateways and X.400 will
glue it all together.
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