Subj : Pipe Color Code Translation
To   : Robert Wolfe
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sun Feb 03 2019 15:10:43

  Re: Pipe Color Code Translation
  By: Robert Wolfe to All on Sun Feb 03 2019 12:35 pm

 > So, passed the following idea along to Santronics this afternoon re:pipe
 > color codes:
 >
 > "I was wondering if you would consider pipe color codes to @-code
 > translation on
 > import in PXECHO/PXMAIL?  There are lots of Mystic boards on the networks
 > these days and a lot of their users post using their software native pipe
 > codes for color.  I was wondering if, when importing messages, PXMAIL/ECHO
 > could check for
 > "Mystic BBS" in the @TID line in the message header and translate the color
 > pipe
 > codes properly before putting them into the message database?"

That seems like a weird place to do the translation (in the tosser). What if
you have a network of Mystic systems with a Wildcat! hub? Would the Wildcat!
hub have to convert all colors codes back to pipe-codes before sending to the
Mystic nodes? And what if some of the nodes weren't running Mystic? The hub
would have to know what software was in use at all times for each node to
convert color codes correctly. Seems like a mess to me.

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