Subj : fido in sync with multiple devices
To   : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Apr 07 2019 02:02 pm


 On 2019 Apr 07 20:10:08, you wrote to Tony Langdon:

 AA> The closest thing that works for me is using the nntp approach. I can
 AA> work with messages at either my desktop or laptop. Most of the time
 AA> those machines are never in the same location.

 AA> But the method lacks the ability to:

you forget about the lastread pointers... news clients keep up with the 
lastread pointers themselves... not the BBS or news server... so you have to 
manually sync the lastread pointers on each device...

 AA> [1] save a reply-in-progress at one device, and resume with it at
 AA> another device before actually sending it off.

you can get this if the BBS offers the ability to save drafts... at least one 
BBS that i know of does this now if the connection is lost while writing a 
message... it only offers one draft, though, and you have to continue it 
immediately when you reconnect...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it 
wrong...
.... How lovely (he said, lying through his teeth).
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