13 May 16 09:23, you wrote to me:   
      
      
    AP> On May 12, 2016 10:25pm, Mark Lewis wrote to Allen Prunty:   
      
    ML>> i guess you haven't heard of AFTERSHOCK or HOTDOGED? those are the   
    ML>> echo tags for those two ""smart phone"" FTN point system apps...   
      
    AP> Points are self contained and they lose the "local" flavor of the BBS.   
      
   one might look at it like that but message bases are message bases are message   
   bases...   
      
    AP> I've tried to subscribe to both echos and no traffic exists in either   
    AP> of them even with a %rescan on two systems that claim high message   
    AP> retention I suspect they are passed through.   
      
   AFTERSHOCK contains 106 messages on my systems... the last one was in 2016   
   Apr... HOTDOGED has 642 with the latest one being the monthly rules posting on   
   the first of this month...   
      
    AP> If you don't believe a mobile interface is relevant I can show you a   
      
   sorry but frankly i don't care about "mobile interface"... an app for this and   
   an app for that?? gimme a break... they're none of them anything more than   
   dedicated browsers deep down... i'll keep my general prupose browser that i   
   control ;)   
      
   now, what kind of special interface is really needed for a mobile or tablet to   
   access a BBS?? seems to me that one only needs a telnet or ssh app... possibly   
   a rlogin one, too... aside from that, what is really and truly needed??   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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