🚀 go-pugleaf

[note: I didn't read this until almost a week after it was posted.  local
network problems.  sorry]

bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:

> This brings up an interesting point: What percentage of the Waffle community
> actually runs a BBS or cares about Waffle's ability to support one?  For my

from the questions asked and the discussions, I'd guess a majority.

> part, I use Waffle so that my wife and I can send and receive email and read
> news.  To me, the BBS support built into Waffle is more of a nuisance than a
...
> munity for Chrome.  Is the fact that Chrome doesn't exist a reflection of the

I am in exactly the same situation.  except that instead of using chrome,
I use helldiver or nwreader or rnf or rusnews (I'm told rnf is still in
beta testing in Europe, but will go on halcyon when it's ready).

so, whether chrome exists or not, the console-only reader beast is out there.
(my wife and) I personally only use waffle.exe to read/reply to mail.

as an aside, on an almost-related topic:  why do people still use waffle.exe
to read and post news?  what is _missing_ from these readers above?  (ones
with a (*) are not problems with at least one or two of them)

  - too expensive (*)
  - doesn't work with my setup
  - thought it was causing the waf165 mail problems I'd seen
  - wanted to give online users same interface (*)
  - suspected a trojan horse
  - too slow to pre-scan headers (when applicable)
  - too much bother to ftp it
  - nostalgic feeling of reading news out of order, not being able to
    follow threads, and having to read at least first page of each post

I can't help with the last one, or the second-last one either, actually,
but speaking as an author of one of these things (for my own benefit) I
know that the effort has already gone into making it - but a lot of people
are still posting from waffle.exe, something I gave up on as being too
painful a long time ago.  are _all_ these people coming in through the
phone lines, where with a slow modem can make a fancier interface seem
like a waste?  (though I think selecting the articles _then_ only
transmitting the ones you _wanted_ over the line is quicker.  maybe it's
a subjective thing)

let us know.  well, let me know.
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Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c