Subj : Re: New offline QWK mail
To   : fusion
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Mar 27 2026 01:45 pm

  Re: Re: New offline QWK mail
  By: fusion to Nightfox on Fri Mar 27 2026 11:35 am

 fu> some of the BBSes had pretty bad message editors too. even if external
 fu> ones were available they might not have been installed.

 fu> then you'd see messages ending like this posted from that BBS:

 fu> /?
 fu> /?
 fu> ?
 fu> s
 fu> /help
 fu> /ss
 fu> /s

Yeah, I always liked having an external message editor available.  One thing I like about Synchronet is that it allows multiple external editors to be configured and allows users to choose what they want to use.  I tend to like to install a lot of things like that..  Back in the 90s, I liked setting up additional file transfer protocols as well, to give users options - but these days, it seems BBS file transfer protocols are a lot less relevant.  It seems most modern BBS software supports the basics (X/Y/Zmodem and maybe Kermit in some cases?), I've heard file transfer protocols like that don't always work great over a TCP/IP network stack because those protocols were made for a raw serial data connection, and for TCP/IP networking, we also have FTP (although I'm not sure if FTP is supported in an old-style BBS terminal connection).

Nightfox
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