🚀 go-pugleaf

I want to start an experimental project to send and receive news as
PostScript files, rather than just as ASCII text.  This has been
brought up before, but it requires equipment that not everybody
has, so it's not appropriate for the comp.lang.postscript group.

What I would like to do is to figure out some basic functionality
and explore some ideas about what should get transmitted and how
it should be read (and perhaps generated).  Hopefully we could
save space and the transmission of bytes by having a common prologue
that is posted every so often but not with every message, but that
would only be possible if there were some standardized way of
creating the PS messages.

Anyway, if you're interested in a project like this, send me some
mail, and I'll build a mailing list initially, rather than having
the discussion go on in comp.lang.postscript.  Also, please indicate
in your mail if your site receives the "alt.*" newsgroups.  It might
be possible to create an "alternative" newsgroup to test this stuff
out when/if we come up with something promising.  Let's generate some
ideas and maybe even write some software, and see what we can come
up with.  As a basic requirement, at least for the beginning stages,
you'll need the ability to execute PostScript files on your display.

This is going to be something that I do late at night, basically,
so it won't be an official project in any capacity, but I think that
some pretty neat stuff could be done, and I'd like to collaborate
with some of you folks out there.

Glenn Reid
glenn@heaven.uucp