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   Hello Paul!   
      
   04 Nov 20, Paul Quinn wrote to Kai Richter:   
      
    PQ>>> Further steps will probably require a further integration of   
    PQ>>> Fidonet into the collection of internets.   
      
    KR>> ?? What steps? That is already done! All you need to do is to   
    KR>> upgrade your software and find an access point. You will have   
    KR>> full markup support, real bold italic and underline is no   
    KR>> problem, you could integrate pictures, audio and video into your   
    KR>> postings. Thousands of Boards are waiting for you.   
      
    PQ> Yes, that is what I intimated.  Have you seen the 'telegrams'?   
      
   No. I don't understand telegrams in this context. Intimating fails due to   
   translation. Sorry.   
      
    PQ> My favourite interface is NNTP.   
      
    PQ> See what I mean(t)?   
      
   No. Just update your software to get all new features. Due to age-, support-   
   and licence-reasons it will be impossible to integrate new stuff into mostly   
   all fidonet software. There is a high risk that any new feature will break   
   older existing systems (For example, some multibyte chars will trash my   
   terminal output completely). If you want features like real bold, italic or   
   underlined text, or the possibility to display any language symbol in its   
   original form, want to use pictures, audio or video, or links to other   
   postings, then upgrade to the new protocols.   
      
   If you could do internet and fidonet integration, where will be the difference   
   then? It will be a part of the bigger thing and it will lose it's identity.   
      
   If you got a working integration then you could use both protocols within one   
   software. But if your software could do HTML5 tagged text why should you   
   change back to ascii if any other software can read HTML5 due to full   
   integration? There is none, the users will be too lazy to switch back to the   
   old standard, never change a running setting. The result would be that the old   
   standard became obsolete completely. That's why an integration of fidonet into   
   internets will be a wasted efford.   
      
   And uhh, sorry for offtopic.   
      
   Regards   
      
   Kai   
      
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