Subj : what's new lately?
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Wed May 29 2019 03:35 am

  Re: what's new lately?
  By: Alan Ianson to Rob Swindell on Wed May 29 2019 02:21 am

 > > I added networked voting support to Synchronet a couple of years ago
 > > (message up/down voting and polls), but only for QWK networking. I've been
 > > asked about adding support to SBBSecho (for FTNs) but without any other
 > > FTN software authors engaged, it wouldn't really be of any use. I inquried
 > > about any interest in FTSC_PUBLIC I think it was, and got no responses.
 >
 > I remember reading your post in FTSC_PUBLIC.

Ah, good to know I'm getting out (on this channel too!).

 > I wonder if you went ahead and
 > implemented that in SBBSecho and published the details in the wiki if it
 > would be implemented in other software?

It's possible, but I have plenty of other things to work on and without any engagement from other developers, I don't have a lot of motivation to re-implement a feature that already workes nicely over QWK networks.

 > I know that wiki.synchro.net is well know as a source of FTN and BBS info.

Cool. I try. :-)

 > > So perhaps the active developers just didn't see the inquiry or there's
 > > just not any interest at least in that particular feature. Or there are no
 > > other active FTN software developers (!). :-)
 >
 > I think a lot of FTN/BBS developers worry about compatibility issues (a real
 > concern) so might like the idea but worry about things like that.

Oh, me too for sure. In general, I've found QWK to be more of an open-book for enhancements (than FTN) and there's certainly less drama/push-back in that space. For that reason, I usually focus my "innovations" in that area.

 > If you could come up with a "standard" of some sort it might just catch on.
 > :)

You never know. Anyway, thanks for replying. :-)

                                            digital man

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